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!
Charles II's visit to the Combined French and English Fleets at the Nore, 6 June 1672. An inscription by John Thomas Serres on the back of this drawing indicates that his father, Dominic, drew it in 1785. However, it appears originally to have been a
circa 1675; 1785 (Serres)
National Maritime Museum
'Subtle' (1808). Scale: 1:48. A plans showing the upper deck, and lower deck with fore and aft platforms for 'Subtle' (1808), an American-built captured Danish Schooner, as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard in September 1808.
Signed by Jo
6 June 1808
National Maritime Museum
A Series of Four Views... No. 4... HMS Shannon leading her Prize the American Frigate Chesapeake into Halifax Harbour, on the 6th June 1813. Bound with PAH8115-PAH8117.; Text and account of engagement on separate sheet.
1830
National Maritime Museum
Watchfull (fl. 1816). Scale: 1:32. Plan showing the body plan with stern board ourline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Watchfull (fl. 1816), late Vigilant (no date), a Cutter. Signed John Nolloth [Master Shipwright, S
Dated: 6 June 1816
National Maritime Museum
'Cape Bon, June 6th 1857' [Tunisia]. No. 13 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The first of a series of drawings of the Mediterranean fleet's summer cru
6 June 1857
National Maritime Museum
'D-Day June 6th 11 00 hrs - Coming ashore LCT'. A study made on D-Day, inscribed 'D-Day June 6th 11 00 hrs' at top left and 'Coming ashore LCT' at bottom centre, with the pre-printed page number 34 of the notebook from which
6 June 1944
National Maritime Museum
'June 6th Landing LCT 103 [8?]'. A study made on D-Day, inscribed as title, lower left, with the pre-printed page number 34 of the notebook from which the sheet comes at bottom right. The view looks down at the figures of soldiers huddled in the
6 June 1944
National Maritime Museum
Air raid on the anchorage: flak going up (D-Day, 6 June 1944, or following). This painting forms part of Norman Wilkinson's ‘The War at Sea’ series, depicting the work of the Royal Navy, Merchant Navy and RAF Coastal Command, of which 53
1944
National Maritime Museum