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!
Full length portrait of a Polynesian man, possibly Omai?. This engraving after a drawing by artist William Hodges, comes from the official account of Cook's second voyage, 'A Voyage towards the South Pole', published by Strahan and Cadell i
25 Oct 1774
National Maritime Museum
His Majesty's Ship Seahorse of 38 Guns, commanded by Captn Jno Stewart, engaging a Turkish Squadron off the Island of Scopolo, on the Night of July 5, 1808. Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
25 Oct 1808
National Maritime Museum
The Turkish frigate Badere Zaffer striking to His Majesty's Ship Seahorse, commanded by Captain Stewart, after an action of 4 hours. Hand-coloured.
25 Oct 1808
National Maritime Museum
The Little Belt Sloop of War, Captn Bingham nobly supporting the Honor of the British Flag against the President United States Frigate, May 15th 1811. This coloured aquatint by William Elmes depicts the engagement between the American ‘President&rsq
25 Oct 1811
National Maritime Museum
St Katherine's Dock under construction, 1828. Hand-coloured etching, inscribed 'To The Chairman, Deputy Chairman, Directors and Secretary of the St Katherine's Dock Company. This plate representing the Works in their progress as they appera
25 Oct 1828
National Maritime Museum
Wreck of the Dart (Sketched on the Morning after the Storm of the 25th Octr 1842) at Madeira. This lithograph was made after a watercolour by Emily Geneviève Smith, in the Museu Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal (Madeira). It shows the wreck of the Dart (
1842
National Maritime Museum
42 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an 18-oared 42 ft Pinnace. Signed J. Edye [Assistant to the Surveyor of the Navy], and Isaac Watts [Assistant to the Surveyor of t
Dated: 25 October 1852
National Maritime Museum
Ochamseer - Omer Pasha inspecting troops at landing, 25 Oct 1855. Drawing
25 Oct 1855
National Maritime Museum