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!
'Rodney' (1833). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Rodney' (1833), a 92-gun Second Rate, two-decker, as fitted in 1840, with alterations to the coal hold, magazine, and the masts.
Signed by T. F. Hawkes [Master Shipwri
22 August 840
National Maritime Museum
Commodore Hopkins, Commander in Chief of the American Fleet. Print
22 Aug 1776
National Maritime Museum
Ornen (1807). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, longitudinal half-breadth, and upper deck with platforms, for 'Ornen' (1807), a captured Danish Paket, now a Schoone
22 August 1808
National Maritime Museum