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!
'Conqueror' (1758); 'Temple' (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Conqueror' (1758) and 'Temple' (1758), both 68-gun Third Rate, two-deckers, based on the
Circa November 1756
National Maritime Museum
'Dublin' (1757); 'Norfolk' (1757); 'Shrewsbury' (1758); 'Warspite' (1758) [alterantive spelling: Warspight]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck proposed (and approved) for 'Dublin' (1757), 'Norf
Circa August 1756
National Maritime Museum
'Dublin' (1757); 'Norfolk' (1757); 'Shrewsbury' (1758); 'Warspite' (1758) [alternative spelling: Warspight]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle proposed (and approved) for 'Dublin' (1
Circa August 1756
National Maritime Museum
'Dublin' (1757); 'Norfolk' (1757); 'Shrewsbury' (1758); 'Warspite' (1758) [alternative spelling: Warspight]; 'Resolution' (1758); 'Lenox' (1758); 'Mars' (1759). Scale: 1:48. Plan showin
Circa August 1756
National Maritime Museum
'Dublin' (1757); 'Norfolk' (1757); 'Shrewsbury' (1758); 'Warspite' (1758) [alternative spelling: Warspight]; 'Resolution' (1758); 'Lenox' (1758); 'Mars' (1759). Scale: 1:48. Plan showin
Circa August 1756
National Maritime Museum
'Shrewsbury' (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile proposed (and approved) for 'Shrewsbury' (1758), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker building at Deptford by Mr Wells.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyor of the Navy, 1755-1
27 August 1756
National Maritime Museum
. deck
Signed by John Henslow [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1775-1784; Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806].
NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 256 states that 'Southampton' was at Plymouth Dockyard from October to December 1776 for smal
Late 1776 to early 1777
National Maritime Museum
Coventry (1757), Lizard (1757),Liverpool (1757), Maidstone (1758), Acteon (1757), Shannon (1757), Active (1758), Acquillian (1758), Trent (1757), Borens (1757), Griffen (1757), Levant (1758). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck plan as proposed and ap
October 1756
National Maritime Museum
Coventry (1757), Lizard (1757),Liverpool (1757), Maidstone (1758), Acteon (1757), Shannon (1757), Active (1758), Acquillian (1758), Trent (1757), Borens (1757), Griffen (1757), Levant (1758). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the quarter deck and forecastle plan a
October 1756
National Maritime Museum
Coventry (1757), Lizard (1757),Liverpool (1757), Maidstone (1758), Acteon (1757), Shannon (1757), Active (1758), Acquillian (1758), Trent (1757), Borens (1757), Griffen (1757), Levant (1758). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck plan as proposed and ap
October 1756
National Maritime Museum
Coventry (1757), Lizard (1757),Liverpool (1757), Maidstone (1758), Acteon (1757), Shannon (1757), Levant (1757), Cerberus (1757), Griffin (1757), Hussar (1757), Bureas (1757), Trent (1757). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard
circa. April 1756
National Maritime Museum
Coventry Class (1756). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines and profile with inboard detail, longitudinal half breadth for Coventry Class (1756) a 28-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate. Annotation at top right in pencil: "Returned from merchant B
30 September 1756
National Maritime Museum
Edgar (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Edgar (1758), a 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyor of the Navy, 1755-1766].
21 April 1756
National Maritime Museum
Escorte (captured 1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and longitudinal half-breadth with upper deck detail for Escorte (captured 1757), a captured French privateer prior to being fitte
Circa May-July 1757
National Maritime Museum
Liverpool (1758). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and longitudinal half breadth as proposed for Liverpool (1758), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate. Signed Thomas Slade (Surveyor of the Navy)
19th September 1756
National Maritime Museum
Plan of cheek for a mast for ships of 100-50 gun classes. Scale: 1:24. Plan of a cheek for a mast of ships of 100, 90, 80, 70, 60, and 50 gun ships, showing thicknesses and breadths. The black lines refer to the form of the cheeks when wrought, and the
1756
National Maritime Museum
Rose (1757); Glasgow (1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth for Rose (1757) and Glasgow (1757), both 20-gun Sixth Rate Sloops.
May 1757
National Maritime Museum
Rose (1757); Glasgow (1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile proposed (and approved) for Rose (1757) and Glasgow (1757), both 20-gun Sixth Rate Sloops.
1756
National Maritime Museum
41ft Mooring Lighter (1757). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, basic profile with some inboard detail, and basic longitudinal half-breadth for a proposed single-masted 41ft Mooring Lighter for Portsmouth Dockyard. There is some dispute as to wh
11 August 1756
National Maritime Museum
60ft Mooring Lighter (no date). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, inboard profile, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed for a 60ft mooring lighter (no date) for Portsmouth Dockyard.
11 August 1756
National Maritime Museum
'Shrewsbury' (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) proposed (and approved) for 'Shrewsbury' (1758), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker building at Deptford by Mr Wells.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyor of the Navy,
17 August 1756
National Maritime Museum