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!
Peggy (1749). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with faint pencil outline of the stern board, midship section, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck detail for building Peggy (1749), an 8-gun Sloop at Deptford Doc
16 February 1749
National Maritime Museum
Formidable (1777). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for building 'Formidable' (1777), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, at Chatham Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyo
16 February 1769
National Maritime Museum
The Royal Hunt, or a Prospect of the Year 1782 (caricature). Hand-coloured.
16 Feb 1782
National Maritime Museum
To the Memory of the Brave Capt John Harvey... of His Majesty's Ship the Brunswick.... after breaking the Enemy's Line.... on the first of June 1794 Grappled to, and engaging Le Vengeur with her Starboard Guns, and totally dismasting L' Ach
16 Feb 1796
National Maritime Museum
'Impregnable' (1810). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines with stern quarter decoration, and longitudinal half-breath proposed for 'Impregnable' (1810), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker.
Signed
16 February 1798
National Maritime Museum
Clipper Ship Hesperus... Messrs Anderson Anderson & Co Owners... & Messrs Robert Steele & Co, Builders, Greenock. Print
16 Feb 1874
National Maritime Museum
Ice in the River Thames off Gravesend, 1895. The River Thames at Gravesend during the prolonged frost in February 1895. A view looking upriver from the promenade showing the foreshore covered in lumps of ice with Custom House Pier and Royal Terrace Pier
16 February 1895
National Maritime Museum