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!
Britania's Assassination or - The Republican's Amusement (caricature). Hand-coloured.
10 May 1782
National Maritime Museum
The Right Honble Samuel Lord Hood, Rear Admiral of the Blue &c.&c.&c. Print
10 May 1783
National Maritime Museum
Howe (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Howe (1815), a 120-gun First Rate, three-decker, as building at Chatham Dockyard.
Signed by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813] and Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822].
10 May 1811
National Maritime Museum
Howe (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for Howe (1815), a 120-gun First Rate, three-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard.
Initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813] and Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822].
10 May 1811
National Maritime Museum
Howe (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the middle deck for Howe (1815), a 120-gun First Rate, three-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard.
Initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813] and Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822].
10 May 1811
National Maritime Museum
Howe (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Howe (1815), a 120-gun First Rate, three-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard. The plan includes pencil annotations and planking for the waist gangways.
Initialled by William Rule
10 May 1811
National Maritime Museum
Howe (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Howe (1815), a 120-gun First Rate, three-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard.
Initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813] and Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822].
10 May 1811
National Maritime Museum
Grecian (1814). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Grecian (1814), a captured American privateer, as taken off at Portsmouth Dockyard, after being fitted as a 1
10 May 1816
National Maritime Museum
Iohn Lumsden Esq. Late a Director of the Honorable East India Company. Dedicated by permission to Neil Benjamin Edmonstone Esqr, late Member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, by his obliged Servant. William Iohn Newton. Print
10 May 1819
National Maritime Museum
Rochfort (1814) [alternative spelling: Rochefort]; Revenge (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for Rochfort (1814), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Sheerness Dockyard after repairs, and alterations for carrying a flag
10 May 1820
National Maritime Museum
Rochfort (1814) [alternative spelling: Rochefort]; Revenge (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore and aft platforms for Rochfort (1814), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Sheerness Dockyard after repairs, and alterations fo
10 May 1820
National Maritime Museum
Rochfort (1814) [alternative spelling: Rochefort]; Revenge (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Rochfort (1814), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Sheerness Dockyard after repairs, and alterations for carrying a
10 May 1820
National Maritime Museum
Rochfort (1814) [alternative spelling: Rochefort]; Revenge (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Rochfort (1814), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Sheerness Dockyard after repairs, and alterations for carrying a flag officer, b
10 May 1820
National Maritime Museum