William Cowley aboard the ship Cygnet in the South Atlantic during his voyage of circumnavigation 1683-86 described how the fourteenth of February brought a "violent storm." Cowley describe how, being Valentine's Day, they were discoursing the intrigues of women when the tempest began. It lasted for over two weeks . . . The men concluded that "the discoursing of women at sea was very unlucky" and "occasioned the storm."