 Beaufort developed the Wind Force Scale and Weather Notation coding, which he was to use in his journals for the remainder of his life.He also promoted the development of reliable tide tables around British shores, and with his friend William Whewell, expanded weather record-keeping at 200 British Coast guard stations.Robert FitzRoy was appointed in 1854 as chief of a new department within the Board of Trade to deal with the collection of weather data at sea as a service to mariners.