In 1984, southerly gales forced 104 of 150 starters to retire.

Gales forced her to quit Cherbourg.

Meanwhile on 19 August De Ruyter's relief fleet had arrived at Bergen; on 23 August he left again to shield a planned escape by the merchant fleet, but adverse gales forced him to return two days later.

These shows travelled winter and summer in all sorts of weather, at times gales forced them to remove the canvas roof of the cinema some times at night when the winds made it hard There were up to 20 families touring Ireland, mainly in isolated areas where the nearest permanent cinema was miles away.