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!
Otter (1742). Scale:1:48. Plan showing body plan, sheer lines with some inboard details, and longitudinal half-breadth for Otter (1742), an 8-gun snow-rigged, two-masted Sloop.
Circa February 1741
National Maritime Museum
'Eagle' (1774); 'Vigilant' (1774); 'America' (1777); 'Ruby' (1776); 'Standard' (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Eagle' (1774), late
11 February 1771
National Maritime Museum
'Vengeance' (1774); 'Sultan' (1775); 'Hector' (1774); 'Royal Oak' (1769). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for 'Vengeance' (1774),
11 February 1771
National Maritime Museum
The Junto in a Bowl Dish (caricature). Text in English below image.
11 Feb 1781
National Maritime Museum
Griper (1804), Furious (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with a scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Griper (1804) and Furious (1804), both 12-gun Gunbrigs built by Messrs Brindley at Ki
11 February 1804
National Maritime Museum
Belle Poule (1806). No scale. Plan showing the starboard profile of the figurehead for Belle Poule (1806), a captured French Frigate, now a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate
Signed by Nicholas Diddams [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1802-1823].
11 February 1808
National Maritime Museum
The Lady Hobart packet, sinking, having struck on an island of floating ice. The Falmouth registered Post Office packet ‘Lady Hobart’, commanded by William Dorset Fellowes was bound for England from Halifax, Nova Scotia, when, on June 26th 180
11 Feb 1809
National Maritime Museum
The Mildmay Seapiece. Picture in the possession of Sir John Mildmay Bart. Technique includes etching.
11 Feb 1812
National Maritime Museum
Ganges (1821). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the starboard side plan view of the after cockpit illustrating the dispensary for Ganges (1821), an 84-gun Second Rate, two-decker, as 'pointed out' by Admiral Sir Robert Stopford [Admiral of the Blue, se
11 February 1830
National Maritime Museum
Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the sail profile with mast and spar dimensions, and sail area, for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built for service in Malta.
11 February 1837
National Maritime Museum
A Representation of the Meteor Seen at Paddington about 12 Minutes before 11 o'clock, on the Evening of the 11th of Feb. 1850. This is a mezzotint representation of a bright, exploding meteor seen over London in 1850. The image is dominated by the da
1850
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96 and 1:12 for detail drawing. A plan showing the main deck of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860), illustrating her as of 12 December 1863 on the completion of her refit. The plan also includes detailed
11 February 1864
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the hold of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860), illustrating her as of 12 December 1863 on the completion of her refit. The plan includes sections through the fore and aft handing rooms
11 February 1864
National Maritime Museum