On His Netherlands Majesty’s Service: The Remarkable Journeys of the Dutch Corvette-of-war Pollux in the Indies/Indonesia and Around the World, 1824-1838
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Abstract
Alfred de Vigny’s Servitude et Grandeur Militaires (1835) could be the leitmotif for this article which describes the highs and lows of the fourteen-year history of the corvette-of-war Pollux (1824-38) as it experienced the vicissitudes of the Dutch colonial wars in the Indies/Indonesia. Launched in Rotterdam in March 1824, the corvette immediately achieved fame with its round-the-world voyage via South America, Cape Horn, and the Marquesas in the company of the frigate Maria Reigersbergen, during which it discovered a new islet in the Pacific Ocean. But its arrival in Java in late August 1825 plunged it into the turmoil of the Java War (1825-30). After serving as a troop transport, patrol vessel and floating prison, its high point came in the immediate aftermath of the war when it was chosen to transport the Java War leader, Prince Diponegoro, into exile in Manado (3 May-12 June 1830). On two occasions in 1827 and 1832, its return journeys to the Netherlands brought it close to disaster: the first when a storm east of Cape Agulhas (South Africa) destroyed its navigational equipment and foresail and the last when scurvy wiped out a third of the ship’s crew including its long-serving captain and first officer. Ending its days as a guard vessel on the Scheldt, its brief fourteen years of service gave it a ring side seat to the birth of the Netherlands Indies state (1816-1942) and the suffering of its Javanese and Minangkabau opponents. In the interstices of this history there are insights into the savage punishments meted out to the crews of Dutch men-of-war, Diponegoro’s reaction to these, the strikingly unhealthy shipboard conditions which convinced the prince to eschew Dutch doctors, and the culture of fine wine drinking amongst the ship’s officers in which the prince also participated.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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