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!
43ft Lighter (1796). Scale: 1:16. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 43ft 40 ton Lighter (1796) built for use in Portsmouth Dockyard.
Signed Edward Tippet [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Doc
12 March 1796
National Maritime Museum
Eugenia (captured 1797). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline and some decoration detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and long longitudinal half-breadth for Eugenia (captured 1797), a captured French privat
12 March 1798
National Maritime Museum
Eugenie (captured 1797). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline and some decoration detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and long longitudinal half-breadth for Eugenia (captured 1797), a captured French privat
12 March 1798
National Maritime Museum
Eugenie (captured 1797). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck and lower deck with platforms for Eugenia (captured 1797), a captured French privateer, as fitted at Plymouth as a 16-gun brig sloop.
Signed by John Marshall [Master Shipwright, Plymouth
12 March 1798
National Maritime Museum
'Ant' (1798). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Ant' (1798), a schooner-rigged tender. It is not known if the 'Ant' w
12 March 1803
National Maritime Museum
'Swift' (1794). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Swift' (1794), a forty-nine foot schooner, ex-Virginia pilot boat.
Signed by H
12 March 1803
National Maritime Museum
'Etna' [Aetna] (1804). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, section at forward bomb bed, upper deck, fore and aft platforms for the 'Etna' [Aetna] (1804). The ship was a bomb vessel and these plans display how she was fitt
12 March 1804
National Maritime Museum
To The Rt Honble George Lord Keith... This Plate representing the Commencement of the Action of the Adml Mitchell Cutter... with a French Gun-brig and Six Armed Sloops and Schooners, near Boulogne, Oct 31 1803 Is... Inscribed by... R Livesay. Hand-coloure
12 Mar 1804
National Maritime Museum
To The Rt Honble George Lord Keith... This Plate representing the Conclusion of the Action of the Adml Mitchell Cutter... with a French Gun-Brig and Six Armed Sloops and Schooners, near Boulogne, Octr 31 1803 Is... Inscribed by... R Livesay. Print
12 Mar 1804
National Maritime Museum
Sir S. Smith Defending the Breach of d' Acre, against Bonaparte. Print
12 Mar 1815
National Maritime Museum
Diligence (1818); Bramble (1822); Swift (1821); Sparrow (1828). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with midhips framing and inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Diligence, a Revenue Cutter. The pla
12 March 1817
National Maritime Museum
Lapwing (1816); Fancy (1817); Kite (1817); Racer (1818); Sprightly (1818); Speedy (1828). No scale, possibly 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for Lapwing (1816), as fitted for a Revenue Cutter, and later used for Fancy (1817); Kite (181
Dated: 12 March 1817
National Maritime Museum
Vernon (1832). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the hold with platforms and sections, illustrating the stowage of ballast, barrels and tanks fitted on Vernon (1832), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, large Frigate.
Signed by James Atkins [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Do
12 March 1841
National Maritime Museum
The launch of the Steam Packet ‘Forth’, 22 May 1841. Inscribed: “To the Directors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. This plate of the launch of the Steam Ship Forth of 1940 tons burthen (on the 22nd May 1841 in the presence of Sixt
12 Mar 1842
National Maritime Museum
12 Mar 1854 10am The Baltic fleet under Sail and Steam. Medium includes graphite.
12 Mar 1854
National Maritime Museum
12 March 1854 Arrival of the Baltic Fleet in the Downs. original art: drawing
12 Mar 1854
National Maritime Museum
The cutter yacht Arrow R.Y.S. 102 Tons, rounding the distance boat off Yarmouth, in the match for Prince Albert's Cup, August 15th 1854. Hand-coloured.
12 Mar 1855
National Maritime Museum