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 with sternboard decoration, sheer lines with inboard detail and stern quarter decoration and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Cumberland' (1774), a 74-gun, Third
26 May 1774
National Maritime Museum
'Duke' (1777); 'Saint George' (1785). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the sheer lines with figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Duke' (1777), built at Plymouth Dockyard, and for Saint 'George' (1785) built at Po
circa August 1774
National Maritime Museum
'Duke' (1777); 'Sant George' (1785); 'Glory' (1788). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Duke' (1777) and 'Glory' (1788), and with an altered bowsprit for 'Saint George' (1785), al
circa April 1774
National Maritime Museum
'Hector' (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Hector' (1774), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan may repr
Circa May to July 1774
National Maritime Museum
'Vigilant' (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Vigilant' (1774), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker building at Bucklers Hard by Messrs Henry and Anthony Adams.
22 September 1774
National Maritime Museum
'Vigilant' (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plans showing the body plan, stern board decoration, sheer lines with decoration detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Vigilant' (1774), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as built by M
6 October 1774
National Maritime Museum
Centurion (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board detail, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Centurion (1774), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker, as built by Barnard & Turner at Harwich. She wa
Circa June 1774
National Maritime Museum
Centurion (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the roundhouse, quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck, lower deck, and orlop deck with platforms for Centurion (1774), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker, as built at Harwich. Note that the upper and lower decks a
Circa June 1774
National Maritime Museum
Ceres (1777). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some midship section framing, longitudinal half-breadth for Ceres (1777), an 18-gun Ship Sloop. The plan states that she was based on the sheer of the captured French Pomona (captur
5 August 1774
National Maritime Museum