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!
Viper (1756). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, longitudinal half-breadth, hold with fore & aft platforms, and fittings for the upper deck for Viper (1756), an early two-masted 10-gun Sloop.
Circa August 1755
National Maritime Museum
Ferret (1760). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck and lower deck with platforms for Ferret (1760), a 14-gun Ship Sloop. The plan illustrates the ship as she was surveyed at Woolwich Dockyard in 1768 and with the later alte
16 August 1768
National Maritime Museum
[References to the sketch of operations at New York (HNS 149) with a view of the engagement on the Hudson river on 16 August 1776.]. There are three variants of this chart in the collection.
1777
National Maritime Museum
[References to the sketch of operations at New York (HNS 149) with a view of the engagement on the Hudson river on 16 August 1776.]. Two plates on a single sheet. Engraved. (Previously numbered 152.) This variant has only the view, without the reference
1777
National Maritime Museum
[References to the sketch of operations at New York (HNS 149) with a view of the engagement on the Hudson river on 16 August 1776.]. Two plates on a single sheet. Engraved. Imprint April 2, 1778. Title added: The Phoenix and the Rose engaged by the enem
1778
National Maritime Museum
[References to the sketch of operations at New York (HNS 149) with a view of the engagement on the Hudson river on 16 August 1776.]. Two plates on a single sheet. Engraved. Lacks imprint. View in aquatint. Printed on Bates paper, view coloured. Page num
1777
National Maritime Museum
A Plan of the Batteries erected before Gibraltar with the attacks made by sea and land on that garrison... on the 13th September 1782. Print
16 Aug 1785
National Maritime Museum
A View from Gibraltar of the Spanish Batteries erected in the late Siege before that Garrison. Technique includes engraving.
16 Aug 1785
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Grand Attack upon Gibraltar September 13th 1782. Technique includes engraving.
16 Aug 1785
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Straits of Gibraltar with the Coast of Barbary from Cape Spartel to Ceuta Point. Technique includes engraving.
16 Aug 1785
National Maritime Museum
The Launch of the North West America at Nookta Sound Being the first vessel that was ever built in that part of the Globe. Print
16 Aug 1790
National Maritime Museum
Bonetta (captured 1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Bonetta (captured 1798), a captured French privateer, as fitted as an 18-gun Ship
16 August 1798
National Maritime Museum
Dick Dock, or the Lobster & Crab (Greenwich Pensioner caricature). Two Greenwich Pensioners sit outside a riverside tavern drinking and smoking. One, with a wooden leg, is shaking hands with a one-armed soldier (whose jacket is miscoloured blue rathe
16 Aug 1806
National Maritime Museum
Jack in a White Squall, Amongst Breakers - on the Lee Shore of St. Catherines (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Page No.79.
16 Aug 1811
National Maritime Museum
Griffon (1832), Forester (1832), Buzzard (1834), Lynx (1833), and Termagant (1838).. Scale possibly: 1:96. Plan showing the 'hermaphrodite' rig (brigantine), stern board outline, and half deck plan for Griffon (1832) and Forester (1832), as wel
16 August 1832
National Maritime Museum
Earl Nelson [sic] : Horatio Nelson. A late print from Hoppner's portrait, mistitled 'Earl Nelson' rather than 'Viscount Nelson' which was his rank in the peerage at death.
16 Aug 1841
National Maritime Museum
Sarah Sands (1846). scale: 1:64. Plan showing the after body plan, and the sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth from the midships to the stern on the four-masted iron steam ship Sarah Sands (1846).
Signed by John Grantham [Consulting Engineer, Live
16 August 1847
National Maritime Museum
Sketch of steamer Sharpshooter Augst 16th 1848 (with notes). Stored with PAH4442-PAH4499, PAH4501-PAH4521.
16 Aug 1848
National Maritime Museum
H.M. Gunboat Snake Lieut. Commander H. McKillop engaging Russian Steamers under Yeni Kali Batteries 24th May 1855. Hand-coloured.
16 Aug 1855
National Maritime Museum