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!
Coureur (1778). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board and decoration and name on stern counter, sheer lines with inboard detail modifications proposed in green ink, longitudinal half-breadth, and midship section showing the clinker fr
18 September 1778
National Maritime Museum
Coureur (1778). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the upper deck, and fore and aft platforms, with proposed modifications in green, for 'Coureur' (1778), a captured French lugger, as modified to an 8-gun Schooner.
Signed by John Henslow [Master Shi
18 September 1778
National Maritime Museum
Portraits of five noble Admirals who have so gloriously distinguished themselves during the present War. Dedicated to the Jolly Tars of Old England. The Rt Honble Richd Earl Howe.... Earl St Vincent....Baron Nelson of the Nile....Lord Visct Duncan....Vice
18 Sep 1799
National Maritime Museum
'Black Prince' (1816). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for building 'Black Prince' (1816), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, at Woolwich Dockyard.
Signed by Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822], Jos
18 September 1810
National Maritime Museum
'Implacable' (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun (lower) deck for 'Implacable' (1805), a captured French Third Rate, as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard, and with modifications proposed by Rear Admiral Thomas Byam Martin, KCB.
Note
18 September 1815
National Maritime Museum
'Implacable' (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Implacable' (1805), a captured French Third Rate, as fitted at Plymouth Dockyard, and with modifications proposed by Rear Admiral Thomas Byam Martin, KCB.
Note that
18 September 1815
National Maritime Museum
Portsmouth Dockyard with Blockhouse Fort in the foreground, 1823. No. 50 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed in the upper right 'Portsmouth Sepr – 18th - 1823.'
On the left is part of the Blockhouse Fort on the Gosport side of the entran
18 September 1823
National Maritime Museum
Vessels in the Pool near Rotherhithe and a sketch of a gaff-rigged barge with stored up bowsprit. Seven sketches of various vessels on reverse. Mounted with PAE6354. A sketch of the Lower Pool at Rotherhithe.
18 Sep 1829
National Maritime Museum
Kingsgate, Kent, with an inset of the N Foreland Lighthouse, Sept 18 1830. original art: drawing
18 Sep 1830
National Maritime Museum
Dieppe Castle, showing the arched viaduct-like approach. original art: drawing
18 Sep 1833
National Maritime Museum
Violet (1835). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck for Violet (1835), a Tender to HMS Survey Sloop Fairy (1826), as taken off at Sheerness Dockyard Signed T (or J) Sturdee [possibly Assistant to the Master Shipwright?].
18 September 1835
National Maritime Museum
'Apia Bay, Upolu, Navigators' Islands [Samoa] Septr 18th 1849'. No. 24 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Reproduced in Fanshawe's biography (1904), f. p. 2
18 September 1849
National Maritime Museum
'Grass Valley, near Nevada City, California, Septr. 18th 1851'. (Updated, September 2014.) No. 60 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Fanshawe and the 'Daphne
18 September 1851
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Unfinished watercolour of the 'Britannia' anchored in 'Mulah Bay' (Vourla/ Urla Bay), Turkey, west of Smyrna (Izmir); (Verso) Mulah Bay (continued on PAI0875 recto). No. 26 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) Inscribed top r
18 September 1852
National Maritime Museum
Seaflower (1830). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck and lower deck with hold for Seaflower (1830), a 4-gun Cutter, as fitted for a Survey Vessel.
Signed by Richard Abethell [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1852-1861].
18 September 1855
National Maritime Museum
The Matterhorn & Glacier from the Riffel-Berg. Signed by artist and dated.
18 Sep 1858
National Maritime Museum