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!
The Representation of His Majesty's Ship Mediator of 44 Guns... Having taken & secured the Alexander renews the action with the Flute Menagere... 12th of December 1782 off Ferrol. Signed by artist and dated in plate.; Plate No.3.
15 Mar 1784
National Maritime Museum
Captain Sir Thomas B. Thompson of the Leander [Thomas Boulden Thompson]. Print
15 Mar 1799
National Maritime Museum
A Correct Representation of the Funeral Barge which conveyed the Body of the Late Lord Nelson from Greenwich to Whitehall Jany. 8th. 1806. Picture transfer-printed on glass depicting Nelson's funeral barge, shown on the Thames, flying the Royal Stand
15 Mar 1806
National Maritime Museum
Fowey / Towey (1814). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for Fowey / Towey (1814), a 26/28-gun Sloop building at Buchlers Hard by Mr Balthazar Adams. Signed William Rule, Henry Peake (Surveyors of the Navy)
15 March 1813
National Maritime Museum
'Talavera' (1818). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines (with alterations), and longitudinal half-breadth for building the 'Talavera' (1818), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker at Woolwich Dockyard.
Note that the plan r
15 March 1814
National Maritime Museum
March 15th About 1 PM the ice closed upon the ship... This sketch represents the Terror's situation at 10PM. Bound with PAF0252-PAF0267, PAF0269-PAF0285.; Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.
1837
National Maritime Museum
Episode du Combat de Trafalgar, Combat soutenu par le vaisseau le Redoutable Contre les Vaisseaux Anglais le Victorieux de 110, le Temeraire de 110 et la Tonnant de 74. Hand-coloured.
15 Mar 1844
National Maritime Museum