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!
Sta Maria Island the Southernmost of the Western Isles bearing N.b.E 9 Leagues distant. Print
20 Jul 1777
National Maritime Museum
To George Mackenzie Macaulay...This Representation of the Ship Pitt, in the...East India Company, on her return from China off Dover, ..1787, is...Inscribed.... Print
20 Jul 1789
National Maritime Museum
Emma, Lady Hamilton. Print. Inscribed 'Emma 1791' on the original drawing, which she gave to the collector Richard Payne Knight, with whom the Hamiltons were staying in late 1791 at Downton Castle, Herts, when Lawrence made it there.
Published 20 July 1792
National Maritime Museum
Crache Feu (captured 1795). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard details, and longitudinal half-breadth for Crache Feu (1795), a captured French 'brick-canonniere' probably as taken off, prior to being fitted as a
20 July 1795
National Maritime Museum
'Sir Sidney Smith. Imprisoned in the Abbaye Paris on the 23rd April 1796. Transferred from thence to the Tower of the Temple on the 3rd July 1796'. Text in English below image. An oil painting either by Hennequin or based on this print is on loa
Published 20 July 1797
National Maritime Museum
A View of Admiral Lord Nelson's Attack upon the Danish Line, before Copenhagen. April 2nd 1801. Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.; Plate 1.
20 Jul 1801
National Maritime Museum
Congreve's method of fitting carronades to 74 gun Ships (1813). Scale: 1:16. Plan showing a plan and side elevation of the method of fixing carronades to the upper decks of 74 gun warships, as designed by Colonel Congreve.
20 July 1813
National Maritime Museum
32ft Pinnace (1824). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and deck plan with longitudinal half-breadth as proposed for fitting 32ft 14-oared pinnaces of ships-of-the-line with a bow-mounted carronade to traverse the c
20 July 1824
National Maritime Museum
This Plate of the Destruction of the John O'Gaunt...by Captain Warner's Invisible Shell, off Brighton, on Saturday, July 20th 1844. Text in English below image.
Aug 1844
National Maritime Museum
The Leviathan (Great Eastern) Steam Ship, Inside and Out (portside view and cross section). A portside view and cross-section of the 'Great Eastern'. Brunel's massive ship - easily the largest of the Victorian age - captured the public imag
20 Jul 1858
National Maritime Museum
Studies of the 'Claymore' yacht, Cowes Roads, 1863. No. 67 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed in the upper left corner next to a broadside view of a yacht 'Claymore Yacht/Cowes Roads – 19th July/1863' and in the lower right nex
19-20 July 1863
National Maritime Museum
The Route of the Atlantic Telegraph, The Great Eastern Section of the bed of the Atlantic. Hand-coloured.; Exhibition: Submarine Cable Exhibition, Science Museum 1973.
At the top of this print is a map of the route of the cable from Valentia in Ireland to
20 Jul 1865
National Maritime Museum
Spithead assembly of the fleet 15th to 20th July 1914. Single sheet. Coloured lithograth. Scale: [ca. 1:28,000]. Additional Places: Solent. Ships' positions marked.
1914
National Maritime Museum