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!
Bristol (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with alterations, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for building Bristol (1775), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. The plan includes a table of mast and yard dimens
14 October 1768
National Maritime Museum
Cygnet off St Abbs Head, October 14th 1808. Land sight astern. An original watercolour by Nicholas Pocock and inscribed by hand: "Cygnet off St Abbs Head, October 14th 1808. Land sight astern."
'Cygnet' was one of a fresh batch of 13
1811
National Maritime Museum
This print of the Raymond Hugh Mckay Commander. The first vessel direct from China to Hull is published commemorative of her arrival on the 14th October 1843. Hand-coloured.
14 Oct 1843
National Maritime Museum
Leander (1848). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing a plan and starboard side elevation of the head to be fitted to Leander (1848), a large 50-gun Frigate. The plan illustrates the arrangement for directing the effluent from the heads/toilets in the bows. A copy
14 October 1849
National Maritime Museum
HMS Fury on her homeward voyage. Ascension. Oct 14th 1850. Medium includes graphite.; Technique includes scraped highlights.; Signed by artist and dated.
14 Oct 1850
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the upper deck of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860).
The details shown on the drawing reflect at least three periods of alteration. As originally drafted, the plan shows the ship on
14 October 1867
National Maritime Museum
HMS Barham (1914). Scale 1:96. A plan showing half-hull sections of the Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Barham (1914). The drawing has been heavily annotated to reflect the ship's peacetime alterations carried out at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1921,
14 October 1915
National Maritime Museum
HMS Barham (1914). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the inboard profile of the Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Barham (1914). The drawing has been heavily annotated to reflect the ship's peacetime alterations carried out at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1921
14 October 1915
National Maritime Museum
HMS Barham (1914). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the upper and main decks of the Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Barham (1914). The drawing has been heavily annotated to reflect the ship's peacetime alterations carried out at Portsmouth Dockyard in
14 October 1915
National Maritime Museum
A distant starboard beam view of a Yeungkong fisher type junk under sail in Sai Wan Bay off Lyemun, Hong Kong. A distant starboard broadside view of a Yeungkong fisher type junk under sail in Sai Wan Bay off Lyemun, Hong Kong. She has single lug sails se
14 October 1937 to 8 January 1938
National Maritime Museum