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 Sailor's Fleet Wedding Entertainment (caricature). Text in English below image.; No.3. Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
10 Nov 1747
National Maritime Museum
Bachelors Fare - or Bread and Cheese with kisses (caricature). Plate No. 365.
This 18th-century caricature shows a sailor having a meal with a young woman. The scene seems innocent enough until the viewer notices that he is actually conducting a business
10 November 1777
National Maritime Museum
Minorca (1779). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Minorca (1779), an 18-gun Zebec [Xebec] to be built at Port Mahon, Minorca. (Ignore the pencil annotation referring to Minerva
Circa February 1778
National Maritime Museum
The Right Honble Richard Lord Howe. Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Fleets in America. Print
10 Nov 1777
National Maritime Museum
The Great Ship Harry, Built in the Reign of King Henry VIII. A line engraving of the 80-gun carrack Henry Grace Dieu, which was built at Woolwich in 1514, rebuilt at Portsmouth in 1539 and accidentally burnt in 1553. Her first master was Sir Thomas Spert,
10 Nov 1793
National Maritime Museum
Supposed form of an Ancient Galley of the first magnituae or rate having forty banks of Oars (Galleys 7). Vol I. Page 72. (Charnock).
10 Nov 1796
National Maritime Museum
The Speaker an English second rate of 54 Guns built about the year 1640. NB This was the Flag Ship of Vice Admiral Penn in the engagement with the Dutch Fleet Feby the 18, 19 and 20 1652. Print
10 Nov 1796
National Maritime Museum
'Boyne' (1810); 'Union' (1811). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing disposition (profile) for 'Boyne' (1810), and later for 'Union' (1811), both 98-gun Second Rate, three-decker, building at Portsmouth and Plymout
10 November 1801
National Maritime Museum
A representation of the Transit in two points of view (a vessel constructed by R H Gower Esqr) (with key). Print
10 Nov 1802
National Maritime Museum
37 ft Pinnace (1815). Scale : 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an 18 oared, 37 ft Pinnace, built for Tremendous (74-gun, Third Rate two-decker, launched in 1784).
Dated: 10 November 1815
National Maritime Museum
38 ft Pinnace (1815). Scale : 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an 18 oared, 38 ft Pinnace, built for Tremendous (74-gun, Third Rate two-decker, launched in 1784).
Dated: 10 November 1815
National Maritime Museum
Calypso (1826). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile plan and the upper deck and lower deck plans for Calypso (1826), an 18-gun Brigantine, as completed as a two masted yacht. Signed G.Perkin (Master Shipwright)
10 November 1826
National Maritime Museum
Extraordinary Gazette, Saturday November 10th 1827 - Admiral Codrington & his Allies lending the Brave Greeks a hand & teaching the Ottoman how to respect Treaties (caricature). Hand-coloured.
10 Nov 1827
National Maritime Museum
'Cumberland' (1842). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline and some framing detail, sheer lines with midship framing and alterations, and longitudinal half-breadth for building 'Cumberland' (1842), a 70-
10 November 1835
National Maritime Museum
Piazetta, Venice, flooded. Dated 10 Nov 1851. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings and drawings resulted from all his travels, but
10 November 1851
National Maritime Museum
El Aguadero, a water mule, Valencia, inscribed and dated 10 Nov 1860. Cooke made numerous trips throughout Europe and North Africa. In 1860, in company with Robert Bateman, he undertook a journey around Spain towards Tangier. A new, more luminous quality
10 November 1860
National Maritime Museum