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!
'Cumberland' (1774). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with stern quarter decoration, and lonitudinal half-breadth proposed for building 'Cumberland' (1774), a 74-gun, Third Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Thomas Slade
20 June 1768
National Maritime Museum
'Elizabeth' (1769); 'Resolution' (1770); 'Cumberland' (1774); 'Berwick' (1775); 'Bombay Castle' (1782); 'Defiance' (1783); 'Powerful' (1783); 'Swiftsure' (1787). Scale: 1:48.
Circa February 1768
National Maritime Museum
'Worcester' (1769). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for 'Worcester' (1769), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, building at Portsmouth Dockyard.
April 1768
National Maritime Museum
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NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 550, states that 'Tryall' was surveyed afloat on 6 October 1766 and found to want between a Small and Middling repair. 'Tryall' arrived at Deptford Dockyard and was docked on
1768
National Maritime Museum
Berwick (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with quarter-gallery decoration, and longitudinal half-breadth for Berwick (1775), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyor of the Navy, 1755-1771].
24 October 1768
National Maritime Museum
Bristol (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the starboard side of the head for Bristol (1775), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker, building at Sheerness Dockyard. The plan does not provide much information on the timbers used for the construction of the bea
1771-1775
National Maritime Museum
Deal Castle (1756). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the half-breadth for the quarterdeck, forecastle and upper deck, and the full lower deck and fore & aft platforms for Deal Castle (1756), a 20-gun Sixth Rate as taken off at Chatham Dockyard in March 1768
Circa March 1768
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the after fall (platform) with the great cabin for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, prior to final fitting as a ship-rigged Bark for exploration.
April 1768
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Endeavour (1768). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, as fitted as a ship-rigged Bark for exploration.
circa 1768
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, prior to final fitting as a ship-rigged Bark for exploration.
April 1768
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the foremost fall (platform), after fall (platform) with the great cabin, for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, as fitted as a ship-rigged Bark for exploration.
1768
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, for fitting her as a ship-rigged Bark for exploration.
April 1768
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, upper deck, forecastle, fore & aft falls (platforms), lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, as fitted as a ship-rigged Bark for exploration.
July 1768
National Maritime Museum
Gibraltar (1754). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck and lower deck for the Gibraltar (1754), a 20-gun Sixth Rate, as taken off at Plymouth Dockyard.
Initialled by Israel Pownoll [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1762
Circa September 1768
National Maritime Museum
Lion (1777) [alternative spelling: Lyon]; Stirling Castle (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed for building Lion (1777) and Stirling Castle (1775), both 64-gun Third Rate, two-deckers.
Sign
24 October 1768
National Maritime Museum
Marlborough (1767). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the sheer lines illustrating the lead sheathing, and the longitudinal half-breadth for Marlborough (1767), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The Marlborough was sheathed in lead in October 1768, and then re-she
circa October 1768
National Maritime Museum
Otter (1767). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for the Otter (1767), a 14-gun Ship Sloop, as built at Deptford Dockyard. Alterations in green ink were sent to Plymouth on 13 December
3 May 1768
National Maritime Museum
'Worcester' (1769). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for 'Worcester' (1769), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, building at Portsmouth Dockyard.
April 1768
National Maritime Museum
'Worcester' (1769). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Worcester' (1769), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, building at Portsmouth Dockyard.
April 1768
National Maritime Museum
'Worcester' (1769); 'Lion' (1777) [alternative spelling: Lyon]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore and aft platforms for 'Worcester' (1769), and with alterations dated September 1805 for 'Lion' (1777
11 April 1768
National Maritime Museum
'Worcester' (1769); 'Stirling Castle' (1775); 'Lion' (1777) [alternative spelling: Lyon]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile proposed (and approved) for 'Worcester' (1769), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker
April 1768
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, prior to final fitting as a ship-rigged Bark for exploration.
April 1768
National Maritime Museum
'Sultana' (1768). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan as taken off; sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, and upper deck for 'Sultana' (1768), a purchased eight swivel gun schooner, as fitted at Deptford Do
21 June 1768
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, as taken off and fitted as a ship-rigged Bark for exploration.
Signed by Adam Hayes [Mas
11 July 1768
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, upper deck, forecastle, fore & aft falls (a type of platforms), lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Endeavour (1768), a purchased collier, as fitted as a ship-rigged Bark for explora
11 July 1768
National Maritime Museum
Ferret (1760). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck and lower deck with platforms for Ferret (1760), a 14-gun Ship Sloop. The plan illustrates the ship as she was surveyed at Woolwich Dockyard in 1768 and with the later alte
16 August 1768
National Maritime Museum
Formidable (1777). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some decoration detail, and longitudinal half-breadth, proposed (and approved) for 'Formidable' (1777), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, to be built at Chatham Dockya
16 September 1768
National Maritime Museum