Dillon, Charles J.: my Navy recollections (July 3 - December 2, 1985)
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Abstract
ABSTRACT: Rear-Admiral Charles J. Dillon Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve Royal Canadian Navy Dillon_C_0190_01.mp3 (Reel 1, Side 1) Born on Apr. 27, 1912 in Montreal. His family moved to Ottawa in 1916 and there, in 1930, he joined the R.C.N.V.R. Describes training. At sea, for two weeks in the summer, training was entirely for fleet actions. Appointed to H.M.C.S. Skeena (destroyer) in 1934 for the annual winter cruise. Explains some of the exercises, but none were to do with convoys. Transferred to the paymaster branch due to his poor eyesight. In 1938 he obtained his watchkeeping ticket in H.M.C.S. Venture. Comments on the pleasant naval social life. (45:00) Dillon_C_0190_02.mp3 Royal visit in 1939, dedication of the National War Memorial. Mobilized on Sept. 2, 1939. Organized shipping control at Quebec City. Mistakenly detained an Italian vessel. (42:00) Dillon_C_0190_03.mp3 (Reel 1, Side 2) Much effort expended to scrape together facilities, port protection, examination battery, etc. In July 1940 became Secretary to the Chief of Naval Personnel. Much "crisis management" in evidence. Worked six days a week and often on Sunday morning. Among his responsibilities was that of sending casualty telegrams. In Apr. 1942 was appointed supply officer in H.M.C.S. Prince Henry (armed merchant cruiser) on the west coast. Describes armament, radar, weather in the Pacific, American forces. Appointed to H.M.C.S. Givenchy (naval barracks). As a lieutenant commander served in H.M.C.S. Nabob (escort carrier). Sailed to San Francisco in 1944 where they took on twelve Grumman Avenger aircraft. Some problems between Royal Navy personnel and the Canadians. Some unrest due to poor (British) rations. Transported fighter aircraft to Britain. Dillon_C_0190_04.mp3 Dockyard in Liverpool: theft and trouble with civilian workers. Training exercises, anti-submarine role. Ship torpedoed, managed to make Rosyth, Scotland where ship eventually repaired. Returned to Canada. (37:00) Dillon_C_0190_05.mp3 (Reel 2, Side 1) Applied to join the R.C.N. and was accepted. Posted to St. John's, Newfoundland as a senior supply officer. Convoy escorts continued to operate for two weeks after the end of the war, then the base began to wind down. Appointed Director of Naval Air Supply in Ottawa. Sent to study the U.S. Navy replenishment at sea operations. Laid foundation for Canadian supply ships. Appointed Naval Secretary. (45:00) Dillon_C_0190_06.mp3 Experiences during 1947-1950 with Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence. Began to replace naval stores personnel with civilian employees. In 1954 initiated a system of sending Canadian officers to study the U.S. naval supply system. Describes the Imperial Defence College in England where he was a student in 1961. (45:00)
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.183 | 0.133 |
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".