Seagoing purposes indispensable to the defence of this country:Policy Pitfalls of Great Britain's Early Ironclads
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Abstract
Ironclads Howard J. FullerLa suprématie navale anglaise avait été remise en cause par les frégates "blindées " instaurées par Napoléon III; elle fît néanmoins face aux affaires impériales et maritimes mondiales ainsi qu'au conflit avec le Nord durant la Guerre Civile.Le but était de maintenir un "pouvoir de projection" faisant concurrence aux avancées technologiques; de la vapeur aux obus, du blindage à l'artillerie lourde.La France et les Etats Unis semblaient jouir des avantages d'une protection maximale voire de l'un des pluspuissants des armements car la "défense cotiere" avait été renforcée aux dépens des capacities des flottes de longue tenue.Great Britain's early ironclad program developed in direct response to the establishment of the seagoing, broadside-ironclad fleet of Napoleon III.In the 1859 pamphlet Maritime States and Military Navies, Captain Sir Adolphus Slade warned that "every Maritime State has, presuming on an innate nautical superiority, deemed by it unattainable by others, viewed carelessly the endeavours of its military neighbour to form a navy." 1 By 1858, the Royal Navy held a precarious edge in screw-propelled, steam-powered wooden-hulled ships-of-theline. 2 To Slade, this was a condition "in the opinion of those who should be well informed, discreditable to the country, and unsafe for its interests."3 With Britain on the verge of gaining a decisive lead once more, the French ironclad Gloire seemed to change the rules 1 Captain Sir Adolphus Slade, Maritime States and Military Navies (London, 1859), 3. 2 Navy Ships Building, &c: An Account, showing the Expenses incurred on Her Majesty's Ships Building, Converting, Repairing, Fitting, &c, during the Financial Year 1859-60^.3February 1861, lists £1,018,061 expended for "Ships and Vessels building", most of these sailing ships still converting to screw, either before or after launching.Ironclad vessels are not listed.Public Record Office, Kew, (PRO), ADM 1/5765.3 Slade, Maritime States, 47. William Romaine, the Permanent (or Second) Secretary of the Admiralty, suggested nothing less than "50 sail of the line in commission and fully manned and exercised," as the "best chance of escaping a War with France," 4 July 1859, Romaine to the Duke of Somerset, "Memo on the necessary Naval Force in
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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