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!
Cambridge (1755). Scale: 1:72. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and the longitudinal half-breadth for Cambridge (1755), an 80-gun Third Rate, three-decker. Note the date is when she was designed and the keel laid at Deptford Dockyard.
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1750
National Maritime Museum
'Royal Sovereign' (1701), 'Victory' (1738), Unnamed 1745 Establishment 100-gun First Rate three-decker. Scale: 1;48. A plan showing the longitudinal half-breadth, sheer lines below water line and the midship bend comparisons between th
May 1750
National Maritime Museum
'Namur' (1756). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Namure' (1756), a 90-gun First Rate three decker.
Signed and attested by John Clevland [Secretary to the Admiralty].
12 July 1750
National Maritime Museum