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!
Spy (1756); Bonetta (1756); Merlin (1756). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the fore and aft platforms of the new 220 ton sloops, Spy (1756), Bonetta (1756), and Merlin (1756), all 10 gun early two-masted, snow-rigged Sloops.
Annotation dated: 25 July 1755
National Maritime Museum
General George Aug: Eliott. Technique includes etching.; Plate No. 146.
25 Jul 1794
National Maritime Museum
Common Boat; Handsome pleasure Boat; Thames Sculler; The Lord Mayor of London's State Barge launched 1807; Stern of the Lord Mayor's Barge; Deal Barge; Dutchman's Stern. Technique includes etching.; Stored with PAD7747-PAD7749.
This print s
25 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
Jolly boat for oars or sail. Handsome launch; Tunny; River Thames fishing or Peter Boat; Ships Boat; Patent Boats; A ship's Long Boat. Technique includes etching.; Stored with PAD7747-PAD7748, PAD7750.
25 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
South Sea Whale fishing boat; Limehouse Skiff; the Lambeth boat, hired by pleasuring parties; the Bow & the starboard Quarter of the sailing boat Bellissima; the Larboard side of the Aeolus sailing boat; the Olive Branch sailing boat. Technique includ
25 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
South Seas Whale fishery boat; Limehouse skiff; the Lambeth boat, hired by pleasuring parties; the Bow & the starboard Quarter of the sailing boat Bellissima; the Larboard side of the Aeolus sailing boat; the Olive Branch sailing boat. Technique inclu
25 Jul 1808
National Maritime Museum
Fores's Marine Sketches. The Schooner Yacht Sverige 280 Tons, R.L.Y.C. Plate 8.
25 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Stockholm harbour with a castle tower and the Charles XIII 74 second view inset. original art: drawing
25 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Stockholm, a view across the harbour with timber pounds, towards Carl Johan church on Skeppsholmen, annotated. original art: drawing
25 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum