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!
Tartar (1757). Scale 1:48. Plan showing sheer lines and only one water line for Tartar (1757), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate, as being altered during repairs at Chatham by Mr Nicholson's Yard. The decks were raised, as shown by the ticked red lines. A
12th November 1790
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Sr Horatio Nelson K B giving the command of his ship the Vanguard to Captn Berry. After having received a wound on the Head in the Glorious Engagement with the French, - on the coast of Egypt. Plate 425.
12 Nov 1798
National Maritime Museum
Circular stern for two- and three-decker ships of the line. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing a stern quarter elevation, and half-deck plans for roundhouse, quarterdeck, upper deck, and middle deck (or lower deck) for two- and three-decker ships of the line. The
12 November 1828
National Maritime Museum
'Diligente' (fl.1839). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck fittings, for 'Diligente' (fl.1839), a slave brigantine that was captured by HMS 'Pearl'. The plan includes
12 November 1839
National Maritime Museum
Kingfisher (1845). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the stern elevation and plan for the tiller arrangement as fitted to Kingfisher (1845), as-gun Third Class Brig. Signed John Fincham [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyard, February 1835-?].
12 November 1845
National Maritime Museum