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!
'Boyne' (1790); 'Prince of Wales' (1794). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Boyne' (1790), and later for 'Prince of Wales' (1794), both 98-gun Second Rate, three-deckers. The plan includes a number
4 April 1786
National Maritime Museum
Proposed 74-gun Third Rate two-decker, based on 'Triumph' (1764). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for a proposed 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, based on the d
20 April 1786
National Maritime Museum
Trinity Lighter Number 1 (1786). Scale: 1:12. A plan showing the plans and elevation of the lifiting mechanism of the dredging apparatus for the Trinity Lighter Number 1, a clinker-built, forty-one foot dredger. The reference key also refers to plan ZAZ
1786
National Maritime Museum
Trinity Lighter Number 1 (1786). Scale: approximately 1:36. A plan showing the body plan, half section, profile, and deck plan for the Trinity Lighter Number 1, a clinker-built, forty-one foot Dredger. It also includes an illustration of the pulley and bu
1786
National Maritime Museum
46ft Chain Boat (1786). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, section, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth for a single-masted forty-six foot chain boat, for the Master Attendant of Woolwich Dockyard, to replace another one th
8 March 1786
National Maritime Museum
Timber carriage (circa 1786). Scale: 1:12. Plan showing the sections through the axles, the side elevation, and a plan view for a carriage to transport timber. The plan also includes the reference relating to the various components, the materials to be
12 August 1786
National Maritime Museum
42ft Ballast Lighter (1786). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a clinch work forty-two foot ballast (mud) lighter, as taken off at Deptford Dockyard. The plan inclu
6 September 1786
National Maritime Museum
32 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:16. Plan showing a faint pencil body plan, ink body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with inboard detail, for a double banked, 16-oared, two-masted, 32 ft Cutter to be sent to Botany Bay.
Annotation dated: 17 November 1786
National Maritime Museum