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!
Sr Francis Drake. London; Engraved for Harrison's Edition of Rapin. Print
9 Aug 1786
National Maritime Museum
Monarca (1780). No scale. Plan showing a part elevation, and two sections illustrating a method of stopping shot holes in warships, as tried in Portsmouth Dockyard on Monarca (1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, fitted as a 68-gun Third Rate, two-decke
9 August 1791
National Maritime Museum
26 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with inboard detail for a 6-oared 26 ft Yawl. Thsi plan recorded as Draught No. 3 [See ZAZ7122 for Draught No. 1].
Annotation dated: 9 August 1794
National Maritime Museum
'The Empress's wish or Boney Puzzled!!' (caricature). Print 'The Empress's wish or Boney Puzzled!! (caricature)'.
A satire on Napoleon’s frustration and anger at British superiority and strength in the naval war. Playi
Published 9 August 1810
National Maritime Museum
Admiral The Honble Sir Alexr Inglis Cochrane, G.C.B. From an Original Picture by Sir Wm Beechey R.A. Engraved by C. Turner for Captn Brentons Naval Histy. Print
9 Aug 1824
National Maritime Museum
Medway Augt 9 1824, depicting a shipping scene with hulks, moored sailing vessels and small sailing craft and figures in the foreground. Mounted in album with PAE9907-PAE9916, PAE9918-PAE9964.; Medium includes brown ink and graphite.; Page 10.; Signed by
9 Aug 1824
National Maritime Museum
Whampoa in China... The view is taken from Danes Island, looking towards Canton, embarcing Whampoa & Junk Rivers.... Hand-coloured print.
9 August 1835
National Maritime Museum
The Bombardment of Sveaborg, 9 August 1855. A depiction of the Bombardment of Sveaborg, the culmination of the Anglo-French fleet's operations in the Baltic in the second season of the Russian (Crimean) War, 1854-56. Sveaborg was a fortress guarding
1855
National Maritime Museum
The forge on deck (of the Great Eastern) - night of August 9th preparing the iron plating for capstan. Three times the telegraph cable was grappled, on 3 August, 7 August and again on 11 August 1866. Each time hundreds of metres of cable was heaved off th
1866
National Maritime Museum
A starboard quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside ice under Cape Prescott detained by the ice.. On board HMS 'Alert' Lt. Parr recorded 'we brought up under the lee of an island just outside the bay and made fast to a large floe
9 or 12 August 1875
National Maritime Museum