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!
Chatham (1758). Scale: 1:48. Body plan, sheer lines, longitudinal half-breadth for Chatham (1758), 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
4 December 1752
National Maritime Museum
Chatham (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Chatham (1758), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Joseph Allin [Surveyor of the Navy, 1749-1755].
October/November 1752
National Maritime Museum
Cruizer (1752) [alternative spelling: Cruiser]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, and partially drawn section for Cruizer (1752), an 8-gun, snow-rigged Sloop.
circa January 1752
National Maritime Museum
Pembroke (1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Pembroke (1757), a 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker, similar to the captured French 74-gun Third Rate 'Monarch' (captured 1747).
Circa November-December 1752
National Maritime Museum
Pembroke (1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plans, sheer lines (no waterlines), and longitudinal half-breadth for Pembroke (1757), a 60-gun Fourth Rate, two decker, similar to the captured French 74-gun ship Monarch (captured 1747). This plan su
November 1752
National Maritime Museum
Rippon (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, longitudinal half-breadth for Rippon (1758), a 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Joseph Allin [Surveyor of the Navy, 1749-1755].
November 1752
National Maritime Museum
Fly (1752). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed for Fly (1752), an 8-gun Ketch-rigged Sloop.
Signed by Peirson Lock [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard 1742-1755 (died)].
Circa January 1752
National Maritime Museum