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!
Unnamed 45ft Coal Punt (1855). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck detail for an unnamed 45ft Coal Punt for service in Sierra Leone.
Signed by John Edye [Assistant Surveyor of the Navy] and Isaac
26 November 1853
National Maritime Museum
Wellesley (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for Wellesley (1815), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1852 at Chatham Dockyard. She was fitted as a guardship for the Ordinary.
Signed by Francis J Laire [Master Shipwr
6 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
Wellesley (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore & aft platforms and hold for Wellesley (1815), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1852 at Chatham Dockyard. She was fitted as a guardship for the Ordinary.
Signed by Fr
6 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
Wellesley (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Wellesley (1815), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1852 at Chatham Dockyard. She was fitted as a guardship for the Ordinary.
Signed by Francis J Laire [Master S
6 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
Wellesley (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Wellesley (1815), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1852 at Chatham Dockyard. She was fitted as a guardship for the Ordinary.
Signed by Francis J Laire [Master Shipwright, Chath
6 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
23 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail [modified in blue], and longitudinal half-breadth for an 8-oared 23 ft Cutter.
Dated: 17 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
25 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail [modified in blue], and longitudinal half-breadth for a 10-oared 25 ft Cutter.
Dated: 17 January 1853
National Maritime Museum
28 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail [modified in blue], and longitudinal half-breadth for a 10-oared 28 ft Cutter.
Annotated in pencil with record where copies were sent to: dated 1859, 1860, and 1861.
Dated: 17 January 1853
National Maritime Museum