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!
Unnamed 36ft Chatham Wherry (1758). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard details, and the longitudinal half-breadth and deck plan of an unnamed 36ft sinlge-masted Chatham Wherry (1758). Note the lines were taken off in Novem
17 November 1763
National Maritime Museum
Perseus (1776); Unicorn (1776). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for building Perseus (1776) and Unicorn (1776), both 20-gun Sixth Rate Sloops at Rotherhithe by Messrs Randall.
Signed by John WIlliams [
17 November 1775
National Maritime Museum
Harriot (1781). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Harriot (a purchased merchantman, as taken off and fitted at Deptford Dockyard for a 22-gun Armed Storeship. The plan also includ
17 November 1781
National Maritime Museum
32 ft Cutter. Scale: 1:16. Plan showing a faint pencil body plan, ink body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with inboard detail, for a double banked, 16-oared, two-masted, 32 ft Cutter to be sent to Botany Bay.
Annotation dated: 17 November 1786
National Maritime Museum
Rambler (1796). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck and lower deck for Raven (1796), a single-masted cutter purchased while building at Thomas King's yard. The plan illustrates the alterations in green ink for conversion to a 14-gun brig-rigge
17 November 1796
National Maritime Museum
Donegal (captured 1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sternboard outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Donegal (captured 1798), a captured French Third Rate. The plan illustrates the ship as
17 November 1801
National Maritime Museum
Donegal (captured 1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck), and orlop deck with fore and aft platforms for Donegal (captured 1798), a captured French Third Rate. The plan illustrates the ship as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard as a 74-gun Th
17 November 1801
National Maritime Museum
Donegal (captured 1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Donegal (captured 1798), a captured French Third Rate. The plan illustrates the ship as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard as a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker.
Signed by John M
17 November 1801
National Maritime Museum
Hercule (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal hafl-breadth for 'Hercule' (1798), a captured French Third Rate, as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard
17 November 1801
National Maritime Museum
Hercule (1798). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck), and orlop deck with platforms for 'Hercule' (1798), a captured French Third Rate, as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard as a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker in 1801.
Signed by John M
17 November 1801
National Maritime Museum
Hercule (1798). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, and upper deck for 'Hercule' (1798), a captured French Third Rate, as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard as a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker in 1801.
Signed by John Marshall [Master Shipwrigh
17 November 1801
National Maritime Museum
Battle of Trafalgar printing plate. A metal plate that depicts the Battle of Trafalgar. The text at the top of the plate says 'The Destruction of the Combined Fleet off Cadis by Gallant Horatio L. Nelson, where he gloriously fell 21 Oct. 1805'.P
17 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte &c. &c. &c. In the Dress he wore, when he received his Mortal Wound, 21st Octr 1805. This print is from Dr William Beatty's published account of the death of Nelson, which also included an engraving of
17 November 1806
National Maritime Museum
Vice Admiral Benbow. Born 1650, -Died 1702, See p.9. D Parkes delint 1818 from the original Painting in the Grand Jury Room in the Guild Hall Shrewsbury. Frontispiece to Vol LXXXIX. Pt.II. Print
17 Nov 1818
National Maritime Museum
Vice Admiral Benbow. Born 1650: -Died 1702. see p.9. Frontispiece to Vol IXXXIX Pt.II. Print
17 Nov 1818
National Maritime Museum
Vice Admiral Benbow. Born 1650: -Died 1702.From the original Painting in the Grand Jury Room in the Guild Hall Shrewsbury. Frontispiece to Vol LXXXIX Pt II. Print
17 Nov 1818
National Maritime Museum
'Rodney' (1833). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Rodney' (1833), a 92-gun Second Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Robert Seppings [Surveyor of the Navy, 1813-1832].
17 November 1826
National Maritime Museum