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!
[The fireship attack on the Spanish Armada, 7 August 1588]. Disbound sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: circa 1:150,000 (bar). Ungraduated chart of the track of the Spanish Armada. The bar scale is in English miles. The chart contains the coats of arm
1590
National Maritime Museum
'Dove' (1805?). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for 'Dove' (1805?), a four gun despatch cutter. There is some confusion as to whether this is the vessel that was the ex-mercantile cutter 'Ariadne' (
7 August 1805
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Hydra cutting out ships at Bagur Aug 7th 1807. The lithograph shows a bow port-quarter view of the 38-gun HMS Hydra very close to the Catalan coast. Although her sails are unfurled, they are hanging loose and the sea is calm, as her starboard guns
1833
National Maritime Museum
To Rear Admiral Munday C.B. this Print representing the Capture of the Fort & Vessels in the Spanish Harbour of Begu, by H.M.Ship Hydra, Capt G Munday Aught 7th 1807. Print
1833
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Launching of his Majesty's Ship Queen Charlotte from Deptford Yard July 17th 1810. Hand-coloured.
7 August 1810
National Maritime Museum
A waterside hut with a bell inscribed ' Toll huis opposite Amsterdam at Buiksloot'. Also a figure sketch and an inscription 'Korf'. original art: drawing
7 Aug 1838
National Maritime Museum