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 Dutch Indiamen leaving Bergen, 25 August 1665. One of a series of drawings made by Van de Velde the Elder when he was attached to the Dutch fleet following the action at Bergen on 2 August 1665, early in the second Anglo-Dutch War. The English had att
1665
National Maritime Museum
The Dutch Indiamen passing Bok op Raa (Bjaelkero), 25 August 1665. The Dutch Indiamen passing Bok op Raa (Bjaelkero, Norway), 25 August [OS] /4 September 1665. The drawing is one of a series made when the Elder accompanied de Ruyter’s voyage to Berg
25 August 1665
National Maritime Museum
Plan of the Town, Fortifications & Environs of Dunkirk. Key to plan below image.
25 Aug 1793
National Maritime Museum
Prince of Wales (fl.1801). Scale: 1:32. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for the Prince of Wales (fl.1801), a 67ft Rowing Galley. She may have been a rowing gunboat.
Signed by Nicholas Diddams [
25 August 1801
National Maritime Museum
'Bulwark' and other vessels at anchor in Portsmouth Harbour, 1824. No. 17 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Drawing inscribed in the upper right 'x Bulwark 74 August 25 1824.'
'Bulwark' (ex-'Scipio', renamed 1806), 74-gun
25 August 1824
National Maritime Museum
Situation of H.M. Ship Fury August 25th 1825. Tinted engraving depicting the Fury and Hecla. An illustration in Parry's account of his third voyage "for the discovery of a N/W passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific performed in the years 1824-
Jun 1826
National Maritime Museum
'Eimeo [Moorea] from near Papeiti [Tahiti, Society Islands], Augt 25th 1849'. No. 12 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Fanshawe's 'Daphne' arrived at
25 August 1849
National Maritime Museum