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!
'Thunderer' (1760). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Thunderer' (1760), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan represents the ship after the alteration to increase the breadth.
Circa July 1757
National Maritime Museum
'Vanguard' (1748); 'Temple' (1758); 'Conqueror' (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Vanguard' (1748), a 1745 Establishment 68-gun Third Rate, two-decker, and later altered in September 1757 fo
Circa 1748
National Maritime Museum
. Inboard profile plan
NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 278, states that 'Alarm' was docked at Woolwich Dockyard on 8 February 1769 and sailed on 15 April 1769 having been fitted at the cost of £1658.12.4.
1757
National Maritime Museum
Active (1758), Argo (1758), Acquilon (1758), Levant (1758), Griffin (1758), Cerberus (1758), Milford (1758), Guadalupe (1763), Carysfort (1766). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile plan as proposed and approved for Active (1758), Argo (1758), Acq
circa September 1757
National Maritime Museum
Alarm (1758); Aeolus (1758) [alternative spelling: Eolus]; Montreal (1761); Niger (1759); Quebec (1760); Stag (1758); Winchelsea (1764). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Alarm
September 1757
National Maritime Museum
Argo (1758), Active (1758), Aquilon (1758), Milford (1759), Guadeloupe (1763), Carysfort (1766), Laurel (cancelled 1783), Hind (1785). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half breadth for Argo (1758),
circa. September 1757
National Maritime Museum
Favourite (1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, inboard profile (one waterline) and longitudinal half-breadth (no waterlines) for Favourite (1757), a 16-gun Ship Sloop. The ship may be illustrated as launched.
Reverse: Plan showing the quarte
Circa December 1757
National Maritime Museum
Favourite (1757); Tamar (1758); Flora (cancelled 1761). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Favourite (1757), Tamar (1758) and Flora (cancelled 1761), all 16-gun
January 1757
National Maritime Museum
Magnanime (captured 1748). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board with name in a cartouche on the counter, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Magnanime (captured 1748), a captured French Third
29 June 1757
National Maritime Museum
Panther (1758); Firm (1759); Edgar (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for Panther (1758), Firm (1759), and Edgar (1758), all 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers.
Circa 1757
National Maritime Museum
Panther (1758); Firm (1759); Edgar (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Panther (1758), Firm (1759), and Edgar (1758), all 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers.
Circa June 1757
National Maritime Museum
Panther (1758); Firm (1759); Edgar (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore & aft platforms for Panther (1758), Firm (1759), and Edgar (1758), all 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers.
Circa 1757
National Maritime Museum
Panther (1758); Firm (1759); Edgar (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Panther (1758), Firm (1759), and Edgar (1758), all 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers.
Circa 1757
National Maritime Museum
Panther (1758); Firm (1759); Edgar (1758). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Panther (1758), Firm (1759), and Edgar (1758), all 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers.
Circa 1757
National Maritime Museum
'Dorsetshire' (1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Dorsetshire' (1757), a modified 1745 Establishment, 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as originally designed to carry 70-guns.
Pre 1757
National Maritime Museum
Guadalupe (1763). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline with some detail, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half breadth for Guadalupe (1763), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate.
note: see nalso ADMC 2450A, A reverse at Yarmout
1757 ta 1763 (order to launch dates)
National Maritime Museum
Merlin (purchased 1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Merlin (purchased 1757), a 18-gun Ship Sloop purchased while building at Rotherhithe by Mr Randall. The plan includes alterations. The ship was named 'Merlin' on 23 Ju
April to June 1757
National Maritime Museum
Merlin (purchased 1757). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck, and orlop deck with platforms for Merlin (purchased 1757), a 18-gun Ship Sloop purchased while building at Rotherhithe by Mr Randall. The ship was named 'M
April-June 1757
National Maritime Museum
53ft Mooring Lighter (1757). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, basic profile with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth, for a single-masted 53ft Mooring Lighter.
Signed by Joseph Harris [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyard, 17
28 May 1757
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