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!
A description of Ceylon. The taking of the City of Jafnapatnam; Caletyre (Ceylon) 15 Oct 1655. Chap. XLIV.; Page 795.
1703
National Maritime Museum
Orpheus (1774). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile plan proposed for Orpheus (1774), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate, as built at Harwich by Mr Brs Bernard and Turner. Signed John Williams (Surveyor of the Navy)
15 October 1771
National Maritime Museum
The Liberty of the Subject [the Press Gang] (caricature). [No.15.] At the time this print was made 'liberty' was most generally understood as the concept of 'British liberty' as a whole, in opposition to foreign and especially Catholi
15 Oct 1779
National Maritime Museum
'An Elevated View of The New Docks & Warehouses now constructing on the Isle of Dogs near Limehouse for the reception & accomodation of shipping in the West India Trade...'. An elevated view of the West India Docks showing the scale of t
Published 15 October 1802
National Maritime Museum
John Bull embracing the Pie-man, or a Friendly Visit to Zeland (caricature). Hand-coloured.
15 Oct 1807
National Maritime Museum
Investigator (1811). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board detail, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for building the Investigator (1811) as a 6-gun Survey Vessel. Signed Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy,
15 October 1810
National Maritime Museum
General Chart of Defence for the Island Banda Neira. Bound with PAG9056 and a page of text.
15 Oct 1811
National Maritime Museum
Fury (1814). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the middle part of a section at the after side of the after bomb bed of the Fury (1814), a bomb vessel building at Rochester by Mrs Mary Ross. The plan includes a note that the beams and diagonal shores were to be
15 October 1813
National Maritime Museum
Fury (1814). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the part section through the after side of the fore bomb-bed for Fury (1814), a bomb vessel building at Rochester by Mrs Mary Ross. The plan illustrates the bolts and chocks used to hold the beams and diagonal shor
15 October 1813
National Maritime Museum
Shamrock (circa 1816). Scale: 1:48. Plans showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Shamrock (circa 1816), a 74ft 12-gun Revenue Brig stationed on the coast of I
15 October 1817
National Maritime Museum
Shamrock (circa 1816). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck and lower deck with hold for Shamrock (circa 1816), a 74ft 12-gun Revenue Brig stationed on the coast of Ireland.
Signed by Edward Churchill [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1815-1929]
15 October 1817
National Maritime Museum
'Royal Adelaide' (1828). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing a half stern profile, stern quarter profile, and stern quarter plan, illustrating the framing of the circular stern, for Royal Adelaide (1828), a 100/110-gun, First Rate, three-decker. Note th
15 October 1819
National Maritime Museum