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 Capture of the Duc de Chartres, 18 April 1747. 'The Capture of the Duc de Chartres, 18 April 1747'
1770
National Maritime Museum
Clevland (1763) [alternative spelling Cleveland]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board ourline, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, and deck plan with plantforms for Clevland (1763), as fitted as an Armed Cutte
18 April 1763
National Maritime Museum
Endeavour (1763). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, and deck plan with platforms for Endeavour (1763), as fitted as an Armed Cutter.
Signed by Edward Allin [Ma
18 April 1763
National Maritime Museum
Winchelsea (1763). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard eetail, longitudinal half-breadth, and deck with platforms for Winchelsea (1763), a purchased 4-gun Cutter. Signed Edward Allin [Master Shipwri
Dated: 18 April 1763
National Maritime Museum
56ft Waterboat (circa 1770). Scale: 1:32. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details proposed for a single-masted fifty-six foot waterboat for Sheerness Dockyard.
Signed by Edward Hun
18 April 1770
National Maritime Museum
To the Survivors and Relations of the Unfortunate Persons who perished in the Halsewell East Indiaman Captain Pierce, on the 6 January 1786, ..... A view of the Halsewell sinking as she strikes the rocks, with seamen cast on to the rocky shore on the left
18 Apr 1786
National Maritime Museum
Dispatch (1796). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail and scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Dispatch, a 16, later 18 gun Brig Sloop.
Signed by William Rule [Surveyor
18 April 1795
National Maritime Museum
Dispatch (1796). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for Dispatch, a 16, later 18 gun Brig Sloop building at Rochester by Mr. John Nicholson.
Signed by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813] and John Henslow [Surveyor o
18 April 1795
National Maritime Museum
His Majesty's Frigate the Diamond.... off Cape La Heve... to cut out a French lugger named Le Vengeur.. 18 April 1796... was boarded... but the cable cut by one of the prisoners... swept... into the River Seine... surrender. Print.
Sep 1803
National Maritime Museum