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!
45ft Chain Lighter (1800). Scale: 1:32. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breath for a forty-five foot chain lighter (1800).
Signed by Henry Peake [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1799-1803; later Surveyor of the
19 January 1800
National Maritime Museum
Swift (purchased 1804). No scale (possibly 1:48). Plan showing an incomplete inboard profile for Swift (1804), a purchased 18-gun Sloop as fitted for a Storeship at Deptford Dockyard, October 1810.
Signed by Robert John Nelson [Master Shipwright, Dept
19 January 1811
National Maritime Museum
Swift (purchased 1804). No scale (possibly 1:48). Plan showing the lower deck, with modifications, for Swift (1804) a purchased 18-gun Sloop as fitted for a Storeship at Deptford Dockyard, October 1810.
Signed by Robert John Nelson [Master Shipwright,
19 January 1811
National Maritime Museum
Swift (purchased 1804). No scale (possibly 1:48). Plan showing the upper deck for Swift (1804), a purchased 18-gun Sloop as fitted for a Storeship at Deptford Dockyard, October 1810.
Signed by Robert John Nelson [Master Shipwright, Deptford Dockyard,
19 January 1811
National Maritime Museum
HMS Rattlesnake passing Curtis Island, Jany 19 '49. Medium includes bodycolour.; Technique includes scraped highlights.
19 Jan 1849
National Maritime Museum
The Kent 1000 Tons being towed past Gravesend. A pier-side scene by Thomas Goldsworth Dutton showing the ‘Kent’ (with passengers, in starboard-bow view) being towed past Gravesend by a paddle steamer on the right of the image. Her sails are in
19 Jan 1853
National Maritime Museum
Grenado (1742); Fighting vessel; Bomb vessel. Scale: 1: 48. A full hull and partially planked model of the ‘Grenado’ (1742), a bomb ketch fitted with two 12-inch mortars. The model has been designed to lift apart to reveal the internal constru
1971-2 (19 January 1971-23 August 1972)
National Maritime Museum