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!
Weazle (1745). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck and fore & aft platforms for Weazle (1745), a 16-gun two-masted Ship Sloop. The Weazle had been on a voyage to West Africa in February 1770 and was to be sent again in
16 October 1770
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1768). Scale: 96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, upper deck, forecastle, fore & aft falls (a type of platforms), lower deck, and fore & aft platforms for Endeavour (1768), after being re-fitted at Woolwich Dockyard.
Signed by William G
16 October 1771
National Maritime Museum
Thames Scene: two rowing boats covered with a tarpaulins in a river landscape. Bound with PAF5128-PAF5130, PAF5132-PAF5135.; Signed by artist.
16 Oct 1809
National Maritime Museum
View of the Island of Banda-Neira... Captured by a force landed from a squadron under the Command of Captain Cole in the morning of the 9th August 1810. Bound with PAG9057 and a page of text.
16 Oct 1811
National Maritime Museum
The Right Honorable William Pitt. Engraved by Topham from a Picture by Bromley. Print
16 Oct 1815
National Maritime Museum
The Destruction by Fire of the Houses of Parliament on Thursday night Octr 16th 1834. River View. This shows the Parliament Office, Painted Chamber, the Library of the House of Commons, the House of Commons, the Speaker's House and the roof of Westmi
1834
National Maritime Museum
Psyche opium clipper barque two topsail schooner (shown in 1845 off China coast). Signed by artist and dated.
16 Oct 1845
National Maritime Museum
Nelson. Trafalgar 21 October 1805. An engraving from the painting ‘Nelson meditating in the cabin of the Victory previously to the battle of Trafalgar’ by Charles Lucy, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854 and now in the Royal Naval Museum,
Published 16 October 1854
National Maritime Museum
Details of Bragozzi with colour plan of sails and details of foredeck with baskets, wooden tubs and a shoe. original art: drawing
16 Oct 1857
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96 and 1:48 for the wash stand drawings. A plan showing the upper deck of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860). The plan includes a partial inboard elevation illustrating the arrangement of the portside sai
16 October 1867
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A heavily annotated plan showing the main 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 s
16 October 1867
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the hold of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860). The plan includes sections through the fore and aft handing rooms, fore and aft magazines, the shell room, and forward end of the boiler
16 October 1867
National Maritime Museum