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.
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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!
Gravesend. Print. From Boydell's' History of the Thames' series, 1794-96, vol II, no. 70, p. 266.
1 Jun 1795
National Maritime Museum
Plover (1796); Bittern (1796); Cyane (1796); Termagant (1796); Brazen (cancelled 1799); Brazen (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the fore & aft platforms for an unnamed 18-gun Sloop but relates to Plover (1796), Bittern (1796), Cyane (1796), Termagan
1 June 1795
National Maritime Museum
Plover (1796); Bittern (1796); Cyane (1796); Termagant (1796); Brazen (cancelled 1799); Brazen (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for an unnamed 18-gun Sloop but relates to Plover (1796), Bittern (1796), Cyane (1796), Termag
1 June 1795
National Maritime Museum
Plover (1796); Bittern (1796); Cyane (1796); Termagant (1796); Brazen (cancelled 1799); Brazen (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for an unnamed 18-gun Sloop but relates to Plover (1796), Bittern (1796), Cyane (1796), Termagant (1796), Braz
1 June 1795
National Maritime Museum
Plover (1796); Brazen (cancelled 1799). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Plover (1796), an 18-gun Ship Sloop building at Mistleythorn by Mr Betts. The plan includes pencil alterations dated 1798 sent on a copy to Portsmouth for building
1 June 1795
National Maritime Museum