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!
'Augusta' (1763). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed for 'Augusta' (1763), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyor of the Navy, 1755-1771].
10 February 1761
National Maritime Museum
Naval Scenes - or sketches afloat - No 3. Cooking (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image. Depicts clothing, outerwear: dress, seaman's
The ship's cook is preparing dinner. Although he is plucking a fresh chicken, most meat us
10 Feb 1831
National Maritime Museum
The Loss of Her Majesty's steam frigate Avenger... on the sunken rocks of Sorelli 20 Dec 1847 while on her passage from Gibraltar to Malta.... Inscribed: "The loss of Her Majesty's Steam Frigate 'Avenger' commanded by Captain Chas
10 Feb 1849
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96 and 1:48 for wash stand detail drawings. A plan showing the lower deck of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860), illustrating her as of 12 December 1863 on the completion of her refit. The plan includes a
10 February 1864
National Maritime Museum