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!
To the Commanders... this view of the Neptune East Indiaman... in a storm... inscribed by... Henry Parker. Print
2 Apr 1776
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Sr Richard Onslow Bart. Second in Command on the 11th of Octr 1797. Print
2 Apr 1799
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Sr Richard Onslow Bart. Second in Command on the 11th of Octr. 1797. Technique includes stipple engraving.
2 Apr 1799
National Maritime Museum
Battle of Copenhagen, April 2nd 1801. Single sheet. Engraving. Contains a view of the city of Copenhagen from the outer road. The ships involved in the action are depicted in profile and named. Text in a box on the right lists the participant ships. Text
1801
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801 (with key). Medium includes gouache.; Signed by artist and dated.
1803
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801. In 1801 the northern powers of Russia, Denmark, Sweden and Prussia, the last three under pressure from the mentally unstable Tsar Paul I - formed an armed coalition that constituted a threat to British interests in
1801
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801. The Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801, fought to force Denmark out of the hostile ‘Armed Neutrality’ of the Northern Powers – Russia, Sweden, Denmark and Prussia –was the second of Nelson
1806
National Maritime Museum
Victory of Copenhagen April 2 1801. Single sheet. Ms. Cartographic Note: North at 90 degrees. Contents Note: There is a numbered key to the Danish and British ships and a list of the British ships and their casualties.
1801
National Maritime Museum
HMS Victory Commissioned by Lord Nelson 2 April 1803. Medium includes pen and ink.
1792
National Maritime Museum
Griper (1804), Furious (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck for Griper (1804) and Furious (1804), both 12-gun Gunbrigs built by Messrs Brindley at King's Lynn.
Note that the Admiralty stamp claims Flam
2 April 1804
National Maritime Museum
Imogen (1805); Orestes (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck of a Brig, being built by Mr Bailey of Ipswich. This has been deduced as being Imogen (1805), a 16-gun Brig, athough it could also relate to Orestes (1805), built by
2 April 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Queen Charlotte yacht with her present gracious Majesty on board. A Yacht in a light breeze with a view of Harwich. Hand-coloured.; Technique includes etching.; No.22.
2 Apr 1806
National Maritime Museum