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!
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John Edye [
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the hold for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John Edye [Assistant Surveyo
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John Edye [Assist
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed by William Edye [Maste
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John E
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John Edye [Assistant S
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', reflect
29 September 1855
National Maritime Museum
Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the main deck for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', reflecting the fact
29 September 1855
National Maritime Museum
Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', reflecting the fac
29 September 1855
National Maritime Museum
Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', re
29 September 1855
National Maritime Museum
Volage (1825),. Scale 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck plan with the proposed alterations for fitting Volage (1825), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Sloop, as a Powder Depot Hulk. Signed Samuel Read (Master Shipwright: Sheerness Dockyard).
Maker/ Artist: CJ Atkins
9th March 1855
National Maritime Museum
Volage (1825). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the hold plan with sections showing the proposed alterations for fitting Volage (1825), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Sloop, as a Powder Depot Hulk. Signed Samuel Read (Master Shipwright: Sheerness Dockyard).
9th March 1855
National Maritime Museum
Volage (1825). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the main deck (upper deck) plans with proposed alterations for fitting Volage (1825), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Sloop, as a Powder Depot Hulk. Signed Samuel Read (Master Shipwright: Sheerness Dockyard).
9th March 1855
National Maritime Museum
Volage (1825). Scale 1:48. Plan showing thepart of the profile with the proposed alterations for fitting Volage (1825), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Sloop, as a Powder Depot Hulk. Signed Samuel Read (Master Shipwright: Sheerness Dockyard).
9th March 1855
National Maritime Museum
38 ft Barge or 38 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a 38 ft Barge or 38 ft Pinnace with sliding gun mounts for and aft.
The annotations indicate th
Dated: August 1855
National Maritime Museum
Forte (1858). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the main deck for Forte (1858), 51-gun wooden screw frigate. The plan was originally drawn for Chesapeake (1855), Forte (1858) and Aurora (1861), but this version was sent to Deptford Dockyard for building Forte.
February 1855, re dated 5 September 1855
National Maritime Museum