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!
Battle of Negapatam, 6 July 1782. (Updated, April 2018) A depiction of the third of the five fleet actions fought off Ceylon and the east coast of India, at the end of the War of American Independence, between the French and English East Indies squadrons
1786
National Maritime Museum
No 3. H.M. Ship Seahorse Captain John Stewart. At daylight on the 6th July 1808 making the Turkish Frigate strike; the Corvette not to be seen, her fate unknown..... Medium includes graphite and pen and ink.; Stored in old mount with PAF4770-PAF4771, PAF4
6 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
'Tower' (1809). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, upper deck, and lower deck for the 'Tower' (1809), a single-masted Impress Tender, as fitt
6 July 1809
National Maritime Museum
Nelson. Technique includes etching. A head-and-shoulders portrait showing Nelson facing to the right, within a circular border. It is placed against a highly romanticized setting of sea, waves, sky and rocks. The letters ‘NELSON’ are inscribed
Published 6 July 1815
National Maritime Museum
View of London Bridge and Custom House with Margate steam yachts. Hand-coloured.
6 Jul 1820
National Maritime Museum
Thracian (1809); Eclair (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for the Thracian (1809) and later for Eclair (1807), both 18-gun Brigs, as converted to Ship Sloops. Thracian was altered to a Ship Sloop at Chatham Dockyard in 182
6 July 1822
National Maritime Museum
Thracian (1809); Eclair (1807); Pandora (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Thracian (1809), and later for Eclair (1807), both 18-gun Brigs, as converted to Ship Sloops. The plan also refers to alterations to Pandora (1813) in 1825
6 July 1822
National Maritime Museum
Black Gang Chine - Isle of Wight. Plate 208. Vignette.; Technique includes etching.
6 Jul 1841
National Maritime Museum
The Capture of the slaver Gabriel by HMS Acorn, 6 July 1841. The ‘Acorn’ brig was one of the British West Africa Squadron, established in 1808 in order to enforce the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade, following the British Act of Abolit
1841
National Maritime Museum