Dwight Sturtevant Hughes, Unlike Anything that Ever Floated. The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 by Jim Gallen
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviews 81 one ship at a particular time, one must scour Admiralty records for postings.It is time-consuming enough if you can get to Kew and prohibitively expensive if you cannot.Here, however, you can easily identify that thirty-eight of the officers included in the book served on HMS Britannia, one of the Royal Navy's first rates which served in the conflict.By examining the dates of appointments indicated, it is easy enough to determine the ship's captain and lieutenants (as well as the seniority among them) for any particular date.The only limitations which a reader should be aware of are not the fault of the author nor the work itself, only of the sources underpinning them.Some information has, sadly, been lost to history.Not every officer will have a full entry; some will have no dates of death, for instance.There are doubtless some officers whose information was lost entirely.Some of the more obscure officers, those who never reached the rank of master and commander, cannot be found in the National Archives' Royal Navy Service Records collection.As a result, there are some individuals not accounted for in the book, through no fault of the author.Some may know of a much older Navy Records Society publication: David Syrett and R.L. DiNardo, The Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy, 1660-1815 (Aldershot: Scholar Press for the Navy Records Society, 1994), which is similar to Harrison's work, though it encompasses the whole of the "Second Hundred Years War." Doubtless, most or all of the officers here are included in Syrett and DiNardo's NRS volume.Harrison's work, however, is an excellent demonstration of the merits of quality over quantity: the NRS volume only includes the dates of birth, promotions, honours, retirement, and death.By focusing on one conflict of the period, Harrison is allowed the space to include much more detail.This is a must-have for any researchers of the Royal Navy of the Seven Years War and those of us who study the RN in later conflicts can hope that more reference works will follow.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.050 | 0.016 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".