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!
Drake (1741); Hawk (1741). No Scale. Plan showing basic fittings of upper deck, and fore and aft platforms for Drake (1741) and Hawke (1741), both 8-gun Sloops.
Dated: 13 November 1740
National Maritime Museum
'Squirrel' (1755); 'Deal Castle' (1756). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for building 'Squirrel' (1755) and 'Deal Castle' (1756), 20-gun Sixth Rates, similar to
13 November 1754
National Maritime Museum
Naval Triumph or Favors Confer'd (caricature). This caricature satirizes the appointment of Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser as Governor of Greenwich Hospital, to which he was raised through the influence of his patron Lord Sandwich, First Lord of the Admir
13 Nov 1780
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph... Forces... Against the Arabian Pirates No 8. The Storming of a Storehouse near Rusal Khyma... Novr 13th 1809. Print
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph... Forces... Against the Arabian Pirates No 9. Rus al Khyma... the situation of the Troops... Novr 13th 1809. Print
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph...Forces...Against the Arabian Pirates No 6. The Wall & Beach, near Rus ul Khyma, with Troops preparing to land....13th Nov 1809. Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
A portrait head, full face. Mounted with PAE6598-PAE6601, PAE6603-PAE6604.
13 Nov 1821
National Maritime Museum
Alarm (cancelled 1832), Tyne (1826), Imogene (1831) [ex Pearl while building], Conway (1832). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with midship framing and longitudinal half breadth for Alarm (cancelled 1826), a 28-gun Sixth Rate Sloop at D
13th November 1826
National Maritime Museum
Petrel opium clipper schooner (shown off China coast 1844). Signed by artist and dated.
13 Nov 1844
National Maritime Museum
. Circular glass plate negative with 44 exposures of what appears to be Venus crossing the Sun's limb. In fact all 44 images are the same and were made as test plates to check observers knew how to use the new 'revolver' invented by Jules
13 November 1874
National Maritime Museum