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!
'Neptune' (1797); 'Temeraire' (1798); 'Dreadnought' (1801); 'Ocean' (1805). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the bow inboard side elevation, stern quarter inboard elevation, a section through the bow at Station 24, and a se
February 1792
National Maritime Museum
Prince of Wales (1794). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing sections through the roof, the profile above the waterline illustrating the roof frames, and the longitudinal half-breadth of the roof outline for Prince of Wales (1794), a 98-gun Second Rate, three-decker
19 November 1792
National Maritime Museum
Tartar (1757). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the fore platform for Tartar (1757), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate. Annotation: top right: "A copy of this was given to Mr Binmer to be sent to the Overseer ye 26th June 1792."
NMM, Progress Book, volume 5
c. June 1792
National Maritime Museum