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!
Woolwich (1785); Sheerness (1787); Severn (1786); Adventure (1784); Gorgon (1785); Chichester (1785); Expedition (1784); Dover (1786). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore & aft platforms for Woolwich (1785), and later used for Sheernes
10 July 1782
National Maritime Museum
Woolwich (1785); Sheerness (1787); Severn (1786); Adventure (1784); Gorgon (1785); Chichester (1785); Expedition (1784); Dover (1786). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle deck for Woolwich (1785), and later used for Sheerness (1787),
10 July 1782
National Maritime Museum
Woolwich (1785); Sheerness (1787); Severn (1786); Adventure (1784); Gorgon (1785); Chichester (1785); Expedition (1784); Dover (1786). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Woolwich (1785), and later used for Sheerness (1787), Severn (1786), Adven
10 July 1782
National Maritime Museum
Sir John Douglas Colonel of the Marines at the Defence of Acre. Text in English on reverse.
10 Jul 1803
National Maritime Museum
'Milford' (1809). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the alteration of the Clerk's Office on the quarterdeck just aft of the mizzen mast on 'Milford' (1809), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitting at Plymouth Dockyard after launch.
10 July 1809
National Maritime Museum
Landscape with the river Chess at Loudwater, Hertfordshire. No. 41 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed in the upper left 'at Loudwater Herts/july 11th 1816.'
Loudwater is a village in Hertfordshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire. It
10 July 1816
National Maritime Museum
Fly (1813); Grasshopper (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Fly (1813) as fitted as a Ship Sloop from an 18-gun Brig. The alterations in green ink represent Grasshopper (1813), a Brig also converted to a Ship Sloop.
Signed by Nich
10 July 1822
National Maritime Museum
Harrier (1831). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing a part stern elevation and plan illustrating the fitting of an iron tiller to the Harrier (1831), an 18-gun Sloop/Corvette.
10 July 1830
National Maritime Museum
Racer (1833). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with midship framing and a sketch of the figurehead, and the longitudinal half-breadth for Racer (1833), a 16-gun Brig to be built at Portsmouth Dockyard. The bow port was to be fitted w
10 July 1832
National Maritime Museum
Wanderer (1835); Wolverine (1836). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half-stern board, sheer lines with midship framing and figurehead (sketch), and longitudinal half-breadth for Wanderer (1835) and Wolverine (1836), both 16-gun Second Class B
10 July 1832
National Maritime Museum
'Old oak bannister on the staircase of the Golden Swan, Wilcot. (Wilts) 10 July 1878'. Sketch of carving on oak bannister, Golden Swan, Wilcot, Wilts, 10 July 1878
William James Herschel returned home in 1878 after 25 years in the Indian civil
10 July 1878
National Maritime Museum
'Pewsey, 10 July 1878'. Sketch of a thatched house at 'Pewsey 10 July 1878'.
William James Herschel returned home in 1878 after 25 years in the Indian civil service. That summer he went on a sketching holiday with S. E. Hardcastle. Th
10 July 1878
National Maritime Museum