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!
The Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653. The Battle of Scheveningen was the last battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–4). This grisaille or 'pen-painting' is one of two known grisailles of the Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653
1655
National Maritime Museum
The View from One-Tree Hill in Greenwich Park. A panorama of Greenwich and distant London engraved in 1744 from a painting by Tillemans, then in the collection of the Earl of Radnor and still in private hands, though there is a version in the Bank of Eng
10 August 1744
National Maritime Museum
'Sealark (1811). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Sealark' (1811), a captured American Schooner, as taken off and fitted in May 1812 for
10 August 1812
National Maritime Museum
Sealark' (1811). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the upper deck, lower deck, and platforms for 'Sealark' (1811), a captured American Schooner, as taken off and fitted in May 1812 for a 10-gun Schooner.
Signed by Joseph Tucker [Master Shipwrigh
10 August 1812
National Maritime Museum
Life - Preserver. Greathead's Boat, Daniel's Life - Preserver &c. Main image with diagrams printed below.
10 Aug 1813
National Maritime Museum
The embarkation of his most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth at Greenwich, August 10th, 1822 for Scotland. Lord Mayor's Barge &cc Royal George, Royal Sovereign. The James Watts Steam Boat. View of Greenwich Reach from the east, showing the emba
Aug 1822
National Maritime Museum
The Launch of the Honble East India Compy's Ship Edinburgh... from the Dock Yard of Messrs Wigrams & Green Blackwall... with a view of the ship Abercrombie Robinson... on the stocks. Hand-coloured.
10 Aug 1827
National Maritime Museum
The Launch of the Honble East India Compys Ship Edinburgh Captain Henry Bax; from the Dock Yard of Messrs Wigrams & Green Blackwall, November 9th 1825, with a view of the ship Abercrombie Robinson Captain John Innes, on the Stocks.... Print
10 Aug 1827
National Maritime Museum
A Government Jail Gang. Sydney N.S Wales. Third print in pamphlet No.2. Frontispiece is PAD2128, other prints are PAD2129-PAD2130, PAD2132.; With Conservation Section, in a frame to be dismantled and reassembled into pamphlet. Job No. 1814.
10 Aug 1830
National Maritime Museum
Calcutta (1831). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarter elevation, and deck plans for the after parts of the roundhouse, quarterdeck, and upper deck illustrating the layout of the circular stern for Calcutta (1831), an 80-gun Second Rate, two-decker. A cop
10 August 1830
National Maritime Museum