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!
32ft Galley (1867). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 32ft galley.
Signed by Philip Thornton [Master Shipwright, Chatham Dockyard, 1864-1872]
14 January 1867
National Maritime Museum
Elevation and depression angles for guns. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the elevations for a 6.5 ton, 9 ton, and 12 ton guns, illustrating their elevation and depression angles through gun ports.
Has accompanying note relating to a request for breadth of po
Dated: May 1867
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the upper deck of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860).
The details shown on the drawing reflect at least three periods of alteration. As originally drafted, the plan shows the ship on
14 October 1867
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96 and 1:48 for the wash stand drawings. A plan showing the upper deck of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860). The plan includes a partial inboard elevation illustrating the arrangement of the portside sai
16 October 1867
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A heavily annotated plan showing the main deck of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860).
The details shown on the drawing reflect at least three periods of alteration. As originally drafted, the plan s
16 October 1867
National Maritime Museum