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 Noble Admiral Lord Nelson, falling in the Arms of Victory...'. A simple and rapidly executed and published print in response to the news of Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar. It mixes allegory with reportage, showing Nelson, s
Published 11 March 1806
National Maritime Museum
Britannia Weeping for the Loss of Her Much Lamented Hero Admiral Nelson.... Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
11 Mar 1806
National Maritime Museum
Comet (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the fore and after platforms for Comet (1807), an 18-gun Fireship (Sloop), building at Bideford by Mr William Taylor. Note that part of the after platform is missing.
Initialled by John Henslow [Surveyor of the N
11 March 1806
National Maritime Museum
Comet (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile with alterations to the capstan position and anchor bitts, and a section through the after part of the Fire Room, for Comet (1807), an 18-gun Fireship (Sloop), building at Bideford by Mr William
11 March 1806
National Maritime Museum
Comet (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for Comet (1807), an 18-gun Fireship (Sloop), building at Bideford by Mr William Taylor.
Initialled by John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806] and William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-181
11 March 1806
National Maritime Museum
Comet (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck with alterations to the capstan position and anchor bitts for Comet (1807), an 18-gun Fireship (Sloop), building at Bideford by Mr William Taylor.
Initialled by John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1
11 March 1806
National Maritime Museum
The Noble Admiral Lord Nelson, falling in the Arms of Victory. Picture transfer-printed on glass. Nelson shown wounded on the on a ships deck, supported by the figure of Victory who holds a laurel wreath above his head. An officer with a drawn sword to th
11 Mar 1806
National Maritime Museum
Newcastle (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with sternboard outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Newcastle (1813), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, Frigate, as taken off in November 1815 when fitting for foreign
11 March 1815
National Maritime Museum
Hind (1814); Wye (1814). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the profile and plan of the stern quarter of Hind (1814), a 20-gun Sixth Rate Sloop, illustrating the fitting of an iron tiller and spiral wheel. According to a pencil annotation on ZAZ3983 this tiller
11 March 1820
National Maritime Museum
Two views of a dehabieh? on the Nile, 11 March 1869. Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.; Exhibition: Special Exhibition Gallery 'On Many Waters', Jul-Dec 1983, 79.
11 Mar 1860
National Maritime Museum
Medina Docks and ships repairing, 1864. Signed by artist and dated.
11 Mar 1864
National Maritime Museum
27ft Steam Life Boat Cutter No.4. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, longitudinal half-breadth for a 27ft Steam Life Boat Cutter No.4.
Signed by Henry Cradock [Master Shipwright, Portmouth Dockyard, 1862-1869].
11 March 1868 (29 February 1868 crossed out)
National Maritime Museum
28ft Steam Life Boat Cutter No.3. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth and half-deck plan, for a 28ft Steam Life Boat Cutter No.3.
Signed by Henry Cradock [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth
11 March 1868 (29 February 1868 crossed out)
National Maritime Museum