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!
'Ardent' (1796). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for 'Ardent' (1796), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, describing the fore and aft bolt in the hanging and lodging knees. Those in black ink are well drove and cl
30 April 1804
National Maritime Museum
60ft Water Tank Vessel (1804). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, basic profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for a three-masted, cedar-built, copper-fastened, sixty foot water carrier for the Jamaica Station, as designed by Captain Andrew Fitzh
1804
National Maritime Museum
Dauntless (1804); Valorous (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Dauntless (1804) and Valorous (1804), both 18-gun Ship Sloops building at Hull by Mr Blunt. The plan includes alterations proposed by Mr Stainforth, MP.
Signed by John
31 July 1804
National Maritime Museum
Dauntless (1804); Valorous (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for Dauntless (1804) and Valorous (1804), both 18-gun Ship Sloops building at Hull by Mr Blunt. The plan includes alterations proposed by Mr Stainforth, MP.
Signed by John Hens
31 July 1804
National Maritime Museum
Dauntless (1804); Valorous (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Dauntless (1804) and Valorous (1804), all 18-gun Ship Sloops building at Hull by Mr Blunt.
Signed by John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806]
4 August 1804
National Maritime Museum
Dauntless (1804); Valorous (1804); Combatant (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Dauntless (1804), Valorous (1804) and Combatant (1804), all 20-gun Ship Sloops building at Hull and Thorne by Mr Blunt. The plan includes alterations
July 1804
National Maritime Museum
Dauntless (1804); Valorous (1804); Combatant (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck with platforms for Dauntless (1804), Valorous (1804) and Combatant (1804), all 18-gun Ship Sloops building at Hull and Thorne by Mr Blunt. The plan includes th
July 1804
National Maritime Museum
Dauntless (1804); Valorous (1804); Combatant (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Dauntless (1804), Valorous (1804) and Combatant (1804), all 18-gun Ship Sloops building at Hull and Thorne by Mr Blunt.
[Note: Rif Winfield claims the buil
July 1804
National Maritime Museum
Lady Hamond (fl.1804); Adonis (1806); Alban (1806); Alphea (1806); Bacchus (1806); Barbara (1806); Cassandra (1806); Claudia (1806), Laura (1806); Olympia (1806); Sylvia (1806); Vesta (1806); Zenobia (1806). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with h
1804
National Maritime Museum
Plan showing two diagrams relating to the doubling of the bottom and topsides for 28-gun Fifth Rate Frigates repairing in Merchant Yards.. Scale: 1:12. Plan showing two diagrams relating to the doubling of the bottom and topsides for 28-gun Fifth Rate Fr
October 1804
National Maritime Museum
Plan showing two diagrams relating to the doubling of the bottom and topsides for 28-gun Fifth Rate Frigates repairing in Merchant Yards.. Scale: 1:12. Plan showing two diagrams relating to the doubling of the bottom and topsides for 28-gun Fifth Rate Fr
October 1804
National Maritime Museum
Seagull (1805); Nightingale (1805); Oberon (1805); Imogen (1805); Savage (1805); Electra (1806); Paulina (1805); Delight (1806); Satellite (1806); Sheldrake (1806); Skylark (1806); Orestes (1805); Julia (1806). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan wit
24 December 1804
National Maritime Museum
Carriage for a 12 pounder Carronade (1804). Scale: 1:6. Plan showing the elevation and plan for a carriage for a 12 pounder Carronade, adapted for small vessels to fire in every direction and only requiring a space of six foot six inches clear deck and n
February 1804
National Maritime Museum
23ft Launch for HMS Texel (1799). No scale. Plan showing the profile, rigging and sails, and section, and sheer legs for lowering a cannon onto the 23ft launch of the Texel (1799) a 64-gun Third Rate converted to a Floating Battery. The plan also shows
9 February 1804
National Maritime Museum
Griper (1804), Furious (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with a scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Griper (1804) and Furious (1804), both 12-gun Gunbrigs built by Messrs Brindley at Ki
11 February 1804
National Maritime Museum
26 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 6-oared 26 ft Yawl.
Paper watermarked: 1804
National Maritime Museum
'Etna' [Aetna] (1804). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, section at forward bomb bed, upper deck, fore and aft platforms for the 'Etna' [Aetna] (1804). The ship was a bomb vessel and these plans display how she was fitt
12 March 1804
National Maritime Museum
Adonis (1806); Alban (1806); Alphea (1806); Bacchus (1806); Barbara (1806); Cassandra (1806); Claudia (1806), Laura (1806); Olympia (1806); Sylvia (1806); Vesta (1806); Zenobia (1806). Scale: 1:48. Plan hsowing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower
April 1804
National Maritime Museum
Griper (1804), Furious (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck for Griper (1804) and Furious (1804), both 12-gun Gunbrigs built by Messrs Brindley at King's Lynn.
Note that the Admiralty stamp claims Flam
2 April 1804
National Maritime Museum
Hardy (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck for Hardy (1804), a 12-gun Brig building at Wearmouth, Sunderland by Mr Roxby.
Signed by John Henlsow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806].
Dated: 20 April 1804
National Maritime Museum
Attentive (1804), Cheerly (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Attentive (1804) and Cheerly (1804), both 12-gun Gunbrigs built by Messrs Bools &
4 June 1804
National Maritime Museum
Forward (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail and midship framing, and longitudinal half-breadth for Forward (1805), a 12-gun Gunboat, later Brig.
Signed by John Henslow [Surveyor o
28 June 1804
National Maritime Museum