This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. 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
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 code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
. Scale 1:19.2. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal plan for an 18ft bark canoe brought back to England for Lord Anson by Captain Henry Barnsley of HMS America (1749), in November 1750. The plan includes the outline of one of the
1750
National Maritime Museum
Cambridge (1755). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Cambridge (1755), a modified 1745 Establishment 80-gun Third Rate, three-decker.
Signed by Joseph Allin [Surveyor of the Navy, 1749-1755].
July 1750
National Maritime Museum
Dunkirk (1754); Achilles (1757); America (1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Dunkirk (1754), a 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. A copy of the plan was sent to merchant yards
July 1750
National Maritime Museum