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!
His Royal Highness Prince William Henry Captain of His Majestys ship Andromeda Dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness Frederick Duke of York and Henry Prince Bishop of Osuabruck &c &c By his Highnesses most obedient humble servant - John Lo
7 Apr 1788
National Maritime Museum
View of the Four Courts, looking down the River Liffey, Dublin. Print
7 Apr 1818
National Maritime Museum
Loss of the Steamboat Swallow while on her trip from Albany to New-York, on Monday Evening April 7th 1845. When opposite Athens she struck a large rock, took fire broke in two and sunk-By which melancholy occurrance, it is supposed that nearly 40 lives we
1845
National Maritime Museum
Steering Wheel (1849). Various scales. Plan showing the side and front elevation of a steering wheel, and detail elevations of the bolts and rings for a steeering wheel, illustrating how they are built at Portsmouth Dockyard. Signed John Fincham [Master
7 April 1849
National Maritime Museum
After the fire, 7 April 1856 (shows blackened skeleton of a hull). Signed by artist and dated.
7 Apr 1856
National Maritime Museum