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!
cynthia (1796). No scale. Plan showing the constructional side elevation and section through the sliding keel for Cynthia (1796), a 16-gun Sloop fitted with three sliding keels, built at Rotherhithe by Messrs Wells.
13 October 1796
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed 56ft Mooring Lighter (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with some fitting details, for an unnamed 56ft Mooring Lighter for Chatham Dockyard (1798).
Signed by John Hensl
13 October 1797
National Maritime Museum
Baron Nelson, of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk. Technique includes etching.; Text in English below image.
13 Oct 1798
National Maritime Museum
Baron Nelson, of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk. Technique includes etching.; Text in English below title.
13 Oct 1798
National Maritime Museum
Baron Nelson, of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk. Technique includes etching.; Text in English below title.
13 Oct 1798
National Maritime Museum
'Flying Fish' (1802). Scale: 1:24. A plan (in two parts) showing the body plan, sheer lines, and the longitudinal half-breadth for 'Flying Fish' (1802), a 39ft single-masted Skiff.
Signed by Robert Hilhouse [Shipbuilder and Merchant].
circa October 1802
National Maritime Museum
Nelson (1814); St Vincent (1815); Howe (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Nelson (1814), St Vincent (1815), and Howe (1815), all 100-gun First Rate, three-decker.
Signed by William Rule [Surve
13 October 1806
National Maritime Museum
Defence (1815); Hercules (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Defence' (1815) and 'Hercules' (1815), both 74-gun Third Rate, two-deckers, building at Chatham Dockyard.
13 October 1813
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed 41ft single-masted unarmed advice? boat/lighter. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for an unnamed 41ft single-masted unarmed cutter/advice boat/lighter for Jamaica.
David Lyon suggests this may be the sailing lighter
13 October 1814
National Maritime Museum
Windsor Castle (1790). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the outboard sheer (no water lines) with figurehead for 'Windsor Castle' (1790), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, as cut down to a 74-gun, Third Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Thomas Roberts [M
13 October 1814
National Maritime Museum
Niemen (1820), Ranger (1820), Tweed (1823), Rainbow (1823), Rattlesnake (1822),North Star (1820), Talbot (1824), Daphne (cancelled 1832), Porcupine (cancelled 1832), Nimrod (1828) – ex Andromache, Alarm (cancelled 1826). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the
13th October 1818
National Maritime Museum
A field with cows. Medium includes graphite.; Mounted with PAE6599-PAE6604.
13 Oct 1821
National Maritime Museum
A series of studies on the beach at Runton, near Cromer - 1. sails and a rudder 2. sails 3. running gear 4-5-6. the breakwater. Mounted with PAE6389.
13 Oct 1828
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Sketch of ships 'steaming and towing' in the strait between between Andro (Andros) and Euboea in the Aegean, September 1852; (Verso) profile views of Cape Matapan, 13 September, and Cape Grosso, 13 October 1852, Greece. No. 25 of 36 (PAI
mid September - October 1852
National Maritime Museum
Sketch of seashore inscribed ' Bude Oct 13/73 5.20pm' (on reverse). Bound with PAF9734-PAF9758, PAF9760-PAF9761.
13 Oct 1873
National Maritime Museum
Wreck of the Ellen Southard lying on Crosby Sands, 13 Oct 1875. Medium includes graphite.
13 Oct 1875
National Maritime Museum
Messrs Donald Currie & Co's Royal Mail Steam Ship Balmoral Castle. Hand-coloured.
13 Oct 1878
National Maritime Museum