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!
The morning of the 12th April 1782 Representing that Gallant Scene between Dominica and Guadeloupe in the West Indies where... Admiral Lord Rodney is forcing the Enemy's Line (before letters). Plate 1.
21 Mar 1783
National Maritime Museum
Victor (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Victor (1798), an 18 gun flush-decked Ship Sloop (later Sixth Rate Corvette) building at Lynn by Messrs
21 March 1797
National Maritime Museum
Victor (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showng the framing profile (disposition) for Victor (1798), an 18 gun flush-decked Ship Sloop (later Sixth Rate Corvette) building at Lynn by Messrs Brindley.
Signed John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806], and
21 March 1797
National Maritime Museum
'Delft' (1797). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle, upper deck, and lower deck, fore and aft platforms, and inboard profile for 'Delft' (1797), a captured Dutch Third Rate, as taken off at Chatham Dockyard prior t
21 March 1799
National Maritime Museum
Commerce de Marseilles. Print. Coloured etching showing the the port side of the Commerce de Marseilles (1788), which was captured from the French at the Siege of Toulon and added 29 August 1793. Commerce de Marseiiles was an 118 gun, first rate three dec
21 Mar 1801
National Maritime Museum
HB Sketches No.895. Rowing in the same Boat. Something wrong at bottom, - weather rather squally (caricature). Print
21 Mar 1848
National Maritime Museum