This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I created several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers (see full list below). I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
Current totals by data source
Current totals by date accuracy
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum - 22336 items; Sjöhistoriska museet - 11809 items; Bohusläns museum - 7936 items; Vänersborgs museum - 7561 items; Kulturarv Västernorrland - 4090 items; Rijksmuseum - 3241 items; Tekniska museet - 2444 items; Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden - 2317 items; Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum - 2007 items; Miliseum - 1287 items; Örebro läns museum - 1254 items; Flygvapenmuseum - 1058 items; ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - 1042 items; Marinmuseum - 735 items; Skansen - 629 items; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - 579 items; Riksantikvarieämbetet - 381 items; Stiftelsen Nordiska museet - 288 items; Historisch Museum Ede - 254 items; Stedelijk Museum Zutphen - 221 items; Ajuntament de Girona - 106 items; CODA Museum - 103 items; INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest - 103 items; Upplandsmuseet - 102 items; The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland - 95 items; Aaltense Musea - 58 items; Stadsmuseum Harderwijk - 56 items; Sundsvalls museum - 50 items; National library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" - 44 items; Länsmuseet Gävleborg - 37 items; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - 31 items; Vasamuseet - 28 items; Images of Old Cluj - 27 items; Nederlands Tegelmuseum - 20 items; Postmuseum - 18 items; Δήμος Τρίπολης - 11 items; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - 9 items; Cluj County Library - 9 items; Slovak National Library - 8 items; Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs - 7 items; Stadskasteel Zaltbommel - 7 items; Stichting Liemers Museum - 6 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus - 4 items; Žemaičių muziejus „Alka“ / Samogitian Museum "Alka" - 3 items; Deventer Musea - 3 items; NOC*NSF - 3 items; Nationalmuseum, Sweden - 2 items; Wikimedia Commons Community - 2 items; Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History - 2 items; Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár - 2 items; Museum Elburg - 1 items; National Library of Bulgaria - 1 items; Horniman Museum and Gardens - 1 items; jNederlands Openluchtmuseum - 1 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum - 1 items; Kauno IX forto muziejus / Kaunas 9th Fort Museum - 1 items; A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum - 1 items; Slot Loevestein - 1 items; Museon - 1 items
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives - 1730 items; The Library of Congress - 1093 items; SMU Libraries Digital Collections - 1038 items; State Library and Archives of Florida - 912 items; State Library of Queensland, Australia - 891 items; Cornell University Library - 840 items; bibliothequedetoulouse - 821 items; Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons - 567 items; Swedish National Heritage Board - 559 items; National Library of Ireland on The Commons - 494 items; State Library of New South Wales collection - 402 items; Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums - 385 items; MissouriStateArchives - 371 items; National Library of Australia Commons - 295 items; NASA on The Commons - 262 items; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - 249 items; National Library of Norway - 229 items; Royal Australian Historical Society - 216 items; Deseronto Archives - 183 items; Provincial Archives of Alberta - 177 items; Powerhouse Museum Collection - 170 items; UW Digital Collections - 123 items; National Library NZ on The Commons - 123 items; UA Archives | Upper Arlington History - 114 items; National Library of Scotland - 105 items; Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - 89 items; Australian War Memorial collection - 88 items; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons - 78 items; National Archives of Estonia - 67 items; Museum of Photographic Arts Collections - 64 items; Stockholm Transport Museum Commons - 61 items; Liberas / Liberaal Archief - 59 items; National Museum of Denmark - 55 items; Costică Acsinte Archive - 49 items; The Gallen-Kallela Museum - 46 items; Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle - 46 items; Museum of Hartlepool - 45 items; George Eastman Museum - 33 items; San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives - 32 items; The National Archives UK - 31 items; tyrrellhistoricallibrary - 29 items; Preus museum - 27 items; Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - 21 items; OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons - 21 items; The Finnish Museum of Photography - 20 items; National Science and Media Museum - 17 items; Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University - 9 items; Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol - 7 items; Smithsonian Institution - 4 items; Getty Research Institute - 4 items; Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland - 4 items; The British Library - 2 items; Camden Public Library (Maine) - 2 items; Center for Jewish History, NYC - 1 items; Kalamazoo Public Library - 1 items; Aalto University Library and Archive Commons - 1 items;
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The website code and generated data is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please (subject to any restrictions as imposed by the content and toolset providers).
'Pincher' (1827). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Pincher' (1827), a 3-gun Schooner, as taken off at Chatham Dockyard.
Signed b
September 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Pincher' (1827). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for 'Pincher' (1827), a 3-gun Schooner, as taken off at Chatham Dockyard. Note the pencil outline of a swivel-mounted gun on the centre line of the upper deck.
September 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Pincher' (1827). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the sail plan for 'Pincher' (1827), a 3-gun Schooner.
7 October 1837
National Maritime Museum
Asia (1824). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the sections and plan illustrating the storage of the tanks, barrels, and ballast for Asia (1824), an 84-gun Second Rate, two-decker.
Signed by John Fincham [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyard, 1835-1839].
20 January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Nymph (1812). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Nymph (1812), a 38-gun Fifth Rate, Frigate, as proposed to be fitted for an Ordinary Guardship without a poop deck.
Reverse: Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Nymph (1812), a 38-gun
January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Nymphe (1812). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Nymph (1812), a 38-gun Fifth Rate, Frigate, as proposed to be fitted for an Ordinary Guardship with a poop deck. This plan is the neat version of the sketch on ZAZ2550.
Signed by William Stone
25 January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Nymphe (1812). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Nymph (1812), a 38-gun Fifth Rate, Frigate, as proposed to be fitted for an Ordinary Guardship without a poop deck. The plan includes alterations to the accommodation in pencil. This plan is th
25 January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Scout (1832). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck as fitted for Scout (1832), an 18-gun Sloop.
Signed by John Fincham [Master Shipwright, 1835-1839] and T Sturdee [Unknown].
2 February 1837
National Maritime Museum
Squirrel (1853); Liberty (1850). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the midship section with midship framing elevation for Squirrel (1853) and Liberty (1850), both 16-gun Second class Brigs building at Pembroke Dockyard.
3 May 1837
National Maritime Museum
Squirrel (1853); Liberty (1850). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth for Squirrel (1853) and Liberty (1850), both 16-gun Second class Brigs building at Pembroke Dockyard. The l
3 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
Squirrel (1853); Liberty (1850). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck with a faint pencil section for Squirrel (1853) and Liberty (1850), both 16-gun Second class Brigs building at Pembroke Dockyard.
Circa 1837
National Maritime Museum
Terror (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard detail for Terror (1813), a Bomb Vessel as converted for Arctic Service under Captain George Back in 1836.
The plan is subsequently dated December 1837 after it was used at Chatham to assist with the
March 1836
National Maritime Museum
Terror (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck illustrating the cabin arrangements and some fitted furniture for Terror (1813), a Bomb Vessel as convered for Arctic Service under Captain George Back in 1836.
Signed by William Stone [Master Ship
December 1837
National Maritime Museum
Terror (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck with some deck fittings for Terror (1813), a Bomb Vessel converted for Arctic Service under Captain George Back in 1836.
Signed by William Stone [Master Shipwright, Chatham Dockyard, 1830-1839].
December 1837
National Maritime Museum
The method of clinching a chain cable by using a slip-hook, for all warshps. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the method of clinching (fastening) a chain cable using a slip hook, for all warships. It seems this plan was drawn at Chatham in January 1837, but mo
January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Cable compressor. No scale. A plan showing the cut away elevation and plan view from below deck of the upper chain compressor approved by the Board of Admiralty as the upper compressor for all His Majesty's Ships, but later not to be adopted until fu
January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Violet (1835). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail (and leeboards), and longitudinal half-breadth for Violet (1835), a Tender to HMS Survey Sloop Fairy (1826), as taken off at Sheerness Dockyard by Admiralty Order, 19
20 January 1837
National Maritime Museum
Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the sail profile with mast and spar dimensions, and sail area, for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built for service in Malta.
11 February 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Hawke' (1820). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for 'Hawke' (1820), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1837. The plan also includes alterations suggested in a letter dated 25 March 1837.
Signed William S
17 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Hawke' (1820). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile to waterline for 'Hawke' (1820), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1837. The plan also includes alterations suggested in a letter dated 25 March 1837.
Signed Wi
17 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Hawke' (1820). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore and aft platforms for 'Hawke' (1820), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1837. The plan also includes alterations suggested in a letter dated 25 March 1837.
17 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Hawke' (1820). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the roundhouse, quarterdeck, and forecastle for 'Hawke' (1820), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1837. The plan also includes alterations suggested in a letter dated 25 March 1837
17 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
'Hawke' (1820). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Hawke' (1820), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1837. The plan also includes alterations suggested in a letter dated 25 March 1837.
Signed William Stone [Maste
17 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
Albatross (1842); Bittern (1840); Elk (1847); Heron (1847); 16 gun First Class Brigs. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail and framing detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 16 gun
18 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
Mercury (1837). Scale: 1:32. Plan showing the inboard profile for Mercury (1837), as fitted as a single-masted Tender.
Signed by William Stone [Master Shipwright, Chatham Dockyard, 1830-1839].
18 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
Mercury (1837). Scale: 1:32. Plan showing the upper deck, and the lower deck with elevations, for Mercury (1837, as fitted as a single-masted Tender.
Signed by William Stone [Master Shipwright, Chatham Dockyard, 1830-1839]
18 March 1837
National Maritime Museum
Sparrow (1828). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Sparrow (1828), a single-masted 10-gun Cutter, as altered and fitted to a two-masted Ketch for service in the Falkland Islands.
Signed by Richard Blake [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dock
17 May 1837
National Maritime Museum
Sparrow (1828). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for Sparrow (1828), a single-masted 10-gun Cutter, as altered and fitted to a two-masted Ketch for service in the Falkland Islands.
Signed by Richard Blake [Master Shipwright, Port
17 May 1837
National Maritime Museum
Spartan (1841), Creole (1845), Amethyst (1844), Niobe (1849). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half stern board and frame outline, sheer lines with midship framing, and longitudinal half breadth for Spartan (1841) and Creole (1845), and later w
12th July 1837
National Maritime Museum
Spartan (1841), Creole (1845), Amethyst (1844), Niobe (1849). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the midship section for Spartan (1841) and Creole (1845), and later for Amethyst (1844) and Niobe (1849), all 28-gun Sixth Rate ships. Spartan (1841) was was later del
12th July 1837
National Maritime Museum
Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and platforms and flats, for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built for service in Malta.
Signed by William Stone [Master Shipwright, Chatham Do
26 July 1837
National Maritime Museum
Griffon (1832), Forester (1832), Charybdis (1831), Buzzard (1834), Lynx (1833), and Termagant (1838).. Scale possibly: 1:96. Plan showing the 'hermaphrodite' rig (Brigantine) for Griffon (1832) as fitted, and Forester (1832), both 10-gun Brigan
Circa October 1837
National Maritime Museum
Griffon (1832), Charybdis (1831), Brisk (1819), Lynx (1833), Termagant (1838), Forester (1832). Scale: 1:96. Plans showing the sail plan for Griffon (1832), Charybdis (1831), Brisk (1819), Lynx (1833), Termagant (1838), all 10-gun Brigantines, and in red
9 October 1837
National Maritime Museum