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!
Adventure (1771). No proper scale (possibly 1:96). Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, hold and platforms for Adventure (1771), a 10-gun Ship-rigged Exploration Vessel, as she entered the double dock at Deptford to be fitted as a Storeship for Halif
8 March 1775
National Maritime Museum
The Grosvenor East Indiaman, Capt Coxon commander wrecked Augst 4th 1782, on that part of the Eastern coast of Africa, inhabited by the Gaffrees.... Print
8 Mar 1784
National Maritime Museum
46ft Chain Boat (1786). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, section, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth for a single-masted forty-six foot chain boat, for the Master Attendant of Woolwich Dockyard, to replace another one th
8 March 1786
National Maritime Museum
Buonaparte leaving Egypt. Hand-coloured caricature of 'Buonaparte leaving Egypt'. Text in English below image.
Another satire on Napoleon in Egypt, ridiculing the French leader’s campaign there. Napoleon departed secretly on 23 August 179
Published 8 March 1800
National Maritime Museum
A plan of the operations of the British forces in Egypt from the landing in Aboukir Bay on the 8th of March to the Battle of Alexandria March 21st inclusive. Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: ca. 1:70 000 (bar). Cartograph
1801
National Maritime Museum