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!
Minerva (1759). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarter deck, forecastle, upper deck, lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Minerva (1759), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate as taken off/fitted at Sheerness Dockyard.
Signed by Edward Hunt [Master Shipwr
2 November 1770
National Maritime Museum
22 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with inboard detail for a 22 ft Yawl.
Annotation dated 2 November 1793
National Maritime Museum
Sir Sidney Smith Hero of Acre. D. Orme Del. & Sculp. Engraver to his Majesty & the Prince of Wales Corrected from the large Head with Permission. 1806. Print
2 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
Broadside view of a fighting vessel with a vessel in full sail beyond and other shipping in 'A Brisk Gale'. Technique includes etching.
2 Nov 1810
National Maritime Museum
Fighting and sailing vessels 'At Anchor' in a calm sea. Technique includes etching.
2 Nov 1810
National Maritime Museum
Fighting and sailing vessels at sea in 'A Calm'. Technique includes etching.
2 Nov 1810
National Maritime Museum
Fighting vessels and sailing vessels at sea near a lighthouse in 'A Fresh Breeze'. Technique includes etching.
2 Nov 1810
National Maritime Museum
Confiance (1827). No scale. Plan showing a section through, and front view of the wheel, and framing blocks for the Haslenben patent paddle wheel, as fitted to the Confiance (1827), originally ordered as a 10-gun Brig Sloop, converted and completed as a
2 November 1829
National Maritime Museum
65ft Mooring Chain Lighter Number 2 (1837). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a sixty-five foot mooring chain lighter Number 2 (1837).
Signed by Oliver Lang [Master Shipw
2 November 1836
National Maritime Museum
Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class. A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. The badge of a Knight Commander, of the Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order awarded to Sir John Franklin on 25 January 1836. It was obtained from t
1836
National Maritime Museum