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!
Engagement between the Flamborough & Biddeford & two French frigates near the Rock of Lisbon. Print
20 Jan 1781
National Maritime Museum
His Majesty's Ship Crescent attacking the French Frigate La Reunion... on the 20th October 1793.... Print
20 Jan 1794
National Maritime Museum
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, From a Design of P.J. De Loutherbourg, R.A. The View of Karakakooa Bay Is from a Drawing by John Webber, R.A (the last he made) in the Collection of Mr. G. Baker. Captain Cook is being raised by two angels into heaven. He i
20 Jan 1794
National Maritime Museum
An Exact Representation of the Grand Royal Procession to St Paul's on Tuesday Decr 19th 1797 to Return thanks.... for.... Victories obtained by Lord Howe, Lord St Vincent and Lord Viscount Duncan, over France, Spain and Holland. Ludgate Hill. Print
20 Jan 1798
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Frigates Stationed in the Hope under the Command of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House. In 1803 several frigates commanded and crewed by Trinity House volunteers blockaded the Thames at Lower Hope as a defence against a threatened Frenc
20 Jan 1804
National Maritime Museum
A Monumental Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson who in the moment of Victory gloriously fell fighting for his Country on the 21 Octr 1805. Hand-coloured.
20 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
A Monumental Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson who in the moment of Victory gloriously fell fighting for his country on the 21 Octr. 1805. Picture transfer-printed on glass depicting a monument surmounted by Britannia holding a wreat
20 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
A Monumental Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson who in the moment of Victory gloriously fell fighting for his country on the 21 Octr. 1805. Picture transfer-printed on glass depicting a monument surmounted by Britannia holding a wreat
20 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
A Monumental Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Amiral Lord Nelson who in the moment of Victory gloriously fell fighting for his Country on the 21 Octr. 1805. Picture transfer-printed on glass depicting a monument, a bust of Nelson stands in front of a
20 Jan 1806
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Lord Nelson the Hero of the Nile, of the Battle of Copenhagen, falling into the Arms of Victory.... Picture transfer-printed on glass depicting Nelson on the deck of a warship supported by a figure representing Victory (right) and crowned by Fame
20 January 1806
National Maritime Museum
The Last Jig or Adieu to Old England (caricature). Hand-coloured.; No.118.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666..
20 Jan 1818
National Maritime Museum
Proposed heads and urinals for the bow of a 46 gun Frigate. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing an elevation, plan, and section of part of the port bow for a 46 gun Fouth Rate Frigate, illustrating the configuration of the heads, urinals and wash trunk, as propose
20 January 1832
National Maritime Museum
Violet (1835). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail (and leeboards), and longitudinal half-breadth for Violet (1835), a Tender to HMS Survey Sloop Fairy (1826), as taken off at Sheerness Dockyard by Admiralty Order, 19
20 January 1837
National Maritime Museum
A gale in the pack, 20 Jan 1842. Medium includes bodycolour and graphite.
20 Jan 1842
National Maritime Museum