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!
Duchess of Manchester (fl.1777). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and proposed modification to the main mast position, longitudinal half-breadth for the purchased Duchess of Manchester (fl.1777), as taken off prior
21 May 1777
National Maritime Museum
Duchess of Manchester (fl.1777). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck and lower deck for the purchased Duchess of Manchester (fl.1777), as taken off, and with proposed modifications for converting her to a 4-gun Survey Sloop. She was possibly rename
21 May 1777
National Maritime Museum
A Dialogue between a British Tar and a French Citizen, A Loyal Sketch in Verse (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English to either side of image.; Page No.296.
21 May 1800
National Maritime Museum
Epervier (1812). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for building Epervier (1812), an 18 gun Brig Sloop at Rochester by Mrs Ross.
Signed by William Ruke [Surveyor of the Navy, 17
21 May 1812
National Maritime Museum
The entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, 1827. No. 49 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed in the upper right 'Mouth of Portsmouth /Harbour/May 21st 1827.'
The view is from the Southsea side with the Round Tower to the right of centre. On the extrem
21 May 1827
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) The 'Napoléon', French 100-gun screw ship, and the 'Jupiter', French 80, in Besika Bay, July 1853; (verso) a coastal magazine(?) on a headland, 21 May 1853. No. 32 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) Two separate sketc
May - July 1853
National Maritime Museum