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!
Boreas (1757). Scale 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck plans, fore and aft platforms for Boreas (1774), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate, as taken off at Portsmouth Dockyard after being launched at Hodgen Yard in Kingston upon Hull. Signed Thomas
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Liverpool (1758). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck and fore & aft platforms as proposed for Liverpool (1758), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate.
18th July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Seaford (1757). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Seaford (1754), a 20-gun Sixth Rate, as fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Bucknall [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1762-1772]
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed ship of the Roebuck class (1767). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, longitudinal half - breadth for building the unknown (and unnamed) 44 - gun Fifth Rate two-decker of the Roebuck Class.
Note: The name of the builder and da
1769
National Maritime Museum
Weazle (1745). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck and after platform for Weazle (1745), a 16-gun two-masted Ship Sloop.
Signed by Thomas Bucknall [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1762-1772].
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Winchelsea (1764). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarter deck, forecastle, upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Winchelsea (1764), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate, as taken off at Chatham in April 1769 prior to sailing for the Mediterran
Circa April 1769
National Maritime Museum
Formidable (1777). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for building 'Formidable' (1777), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, at Chatham Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyo
16 February 1769
National Maritime Museum
Niger (1759). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Niger (1759), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate, as fitted/taken off? at Portsmouth Dockyard after returning from Newfoundland.
Signed by Thomas Bucknall [M
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum
Solebay (1763). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Solebay (1763), a 28-gun Sixth Rate Frigate, as taken off at Portsmouth Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Bucknall [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1
18 July 1769
National Maritime Museum