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!
'Boscawen' (1842); 'Cumberland' (1842). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for 'Boscawen' (1844), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Chatham Dockyard as a Guard Ship.
On the reverse is a pla
May 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Boscawen' (1844). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile illustrating the fittings for 'Boscawen' (1844), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Chatham Dockyard as a Guard Ship.
NMM, Progress Book, volume 6, folio 195
May 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Boscawen' (1844). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for 'Boscawen' (1844), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Chatham Dockyard as a Guard Ship.
On the reverse is a plan showing the hold with sections for 'Bosca
May 1851
National Maritime Museum
'Boscawen' (1844). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Boscawen' (1844), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Chatham Dockyard as a Guard Ship.
On the reverse is a plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for 'B
May 1851
National Maritime Museum
Vanguard (1835). Scale: 1:48. A hand drawn copy of a plan dated 17 April 1841 showing the inboard profile with details for Vanguard (1835), an 80-gun Second Rate, two-decker.
19 April 1851
National Maritime Museum
32 ft Barge. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth for a 14-oared 32 ft Barge. Annotation dated October 1852, listing the dockyards to which copied were sent.
Originally dated: 7 January 1851, later amended to 1853
National Maritime Museum
Method of fitting guns to the launch of Phaeton (1848). No scale. Plan showing a part elevation and plan for the bow and stern of the launch for Phaeton (1848), a 50-gun, Fourth Rate Frigate, illustrating the fitting of guns to fire over the bow and ster
15 August 1851
National Maritime Museum
Provision tanks for all classes of warships (1852). No scale. An Admiralty office plan copied from Portsmouth Dockyard showing the provision tanks for ships of the line to 36-gun Frigates, and for 28-gun Ships and smaller, to replace the wooden tanks usu
6 February 1852
National Maritime Museum
Intrepid (1850); Pioneer (1850). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck and hold illustrating the cabin and storage arrangements for Intrepid (1850), and Pioneer (1850), both purchased merchant ships converted as 'Arctic Schooners' for the Fr
28 November 1851
National Maritime Museum
Intrepid (1850); Pioneer (1850). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the midship section illustrating the mode of strengthening the hull and the fitting of the Silvester warming apparatus, and the inboard profile illustrating the pipe arrangements and bow strength
28 November 1851
National Maritime Museum