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!
The Loss of the Abergaveny East India Man off The Isle of Portland. Monochrome print from an engraving by Richard Corbould. In 1805 the East Indiaman, the Earl of Abergavenny (1796), captained by John Wordsworth, the brother of the poet, William Wordsw
18 Feb 1806
National Maritime Museum
'Invincible' (1808); 'Chatham' (1812). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the longitudinal half-breadths and profiles for the orlop deck and forward part of the lower deck for 'Invincible' (1808), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The
18 February 1807
National Maritime Museum
Pumping system as designed by Captain Truscott and fitted to Havock (1805). Scale: 1:24 and 1:12. Plan showing an elevation with pump details for the pumping system as designed by Captain Truscott, and fitted to Havock (1805), a 14-gun Brig Sloop. The p
18 February 1814
National Maritime Museum
View of the Thames off Three Cranes Wharf when frozen Monday 31st January to Saturday 5th February 1814, on which a Fair was held, attended by many Hundred Persons. A staid scene from the last great frost fair during the winter of 1813-14. It shows people
18 Feb 1814
National Maritime Museum
Rough sketch of a distant view of Ventnor Feb 18 66. Bound with PAF9144-PAF9148, PAF9150-PAF9171.
18 Feb 1866
National Maritime Museum
'Between Daboad & Phila. 4.P.M. Feby 18. 1867.' (524). This watercolour of a large Nile craft berthed on the river’s bank was taken by Edward Lear in the afternoon on 18 February 1867 during the artist’s third visit to Egypt. It
18 February 1867
National Maritime Museum