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!
A Representation of the Glorious Victory obtained by Admiral Duncan over the Dutch Fleet, Octr. 11th.1797.... Technique includes etching.; Text in English below image.
19 Dec 1797
National Maritime Museum
Sir Alan Gardner Bart Admiral of the Blue & M.P. for the City of Westminster. Print
19 Dec 1799
National Maritime Museum
Purfleet. For Dr Hughson's Description of London. Copper-plate print lettered, lower right of image 'For Dr Hughson's Description of London'. Purfleet is on the Essex (north) shore of the Thames, 16 miles east of London. It is possibl
19 December 1807
National Maritime Museum
26 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck detail for a 26 ft Yawl. Signed Joseph Tucker [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, ? -1813; Surveyor of the Navy 1813-1831].
Dated: 19 December 1809
National Maritime Museum
28 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a 10 oared, 28 ft Pinnace. Signed Joseph Tucker [Master Shipwright, Plymouth, c1809-1813; Surveyor of the Navy,
Dated: 19 December 1809
National Maritime Museum
32 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a 14? oared, 32 ft Pinnace. Signed Joseph Tucker [Master Shipwright, Plymouth, c1809-1813; Surveyor of the Navy,
Dated: 19 December 1809
National Maritime Museum
Two coastal profiles, of St Aldan's Head and Lulworth Cove, 1818. No. 30 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Drawing inscribed in the upper right 'St Aldans head bearing SE by S/12 miles/ Decr 19 - 1818', and in centre of sheet 'Lulworth cove E
19 December 1818
National Maritime Museum
80 gun Ships, specifically Colossus (1848), Centurion (1844). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing a part body plan and part longitudinal half-breadth with superimposed timbers and cannon, to illustrate a proposed alteration in the form of timbers under the after qu
19 December 1839
National Maritime Museum