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!
30ft Flat-bottomed Boat (1775). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, midship section, inboard profile and deck plan for a 16-oared, 30ft flat-bottomed Boat, to carry 40 Soldiers and 16 Sailors. Copies were sent out in 1799 and 1800.
Signed by John
26 July 1775
National Maritime Museum
Six illustrations: 1.A View of Louisbourg Harbor, on the South Coast of the Island of Cape Breton..... 2.A View of the Shore to the Westward of Gabbarrus Bay, on the South Coast of Cape Breton Island. 3.West Shore of Richmond Isle, near the entrances of t
26 Jul 1777
National Maritime Museum
The fitting of illuminators to gunports in ships (1811). No scale. Plan showing the fitting of illuminators below the scuttles in the ports of warships.
Signed by Robert Seppings [Master Shipwright, Chatham Dockyard, 1803-1813; Surveyor of the Navy, 1
26 July 1811
National Maritime Museum
This representation of the Battle on Lake Erie is respectfully inscribed to Commodore Perry, his officers and Gallant Crews... Second View. Print
26 Jul 1815
National Maritime Museum
Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and platforms and flats, for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built for service in Malta.
Signed by William Stone [Master Shipwright, Chatham Do
26 July 1837
National Maritime Museum
Panoramic view of Stockholm (left hand) with 859 and 860. original art: drawing
26 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Panoramic view of Stockholm (right hand) with 860 and 861. original art: drawing
26 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
Stockholm harbour with Cathedral behind and much shipping. original art: drawing
26 Jul 1853
National Maritime Museum
'Kotka bridge, burnt July 26th 1855' [Finland]. No. 1 in Fanshawe's Baltic, later service and holiday album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The historic town and port of Kotka is on the north
26 July 1855
National Maritime Museum
The Queen's Birthday. Colours Flying and Manned at the Yards. James Watt. A commemorative image showing the James Watt (shown starboard bow) flying the colours of the nations and manned at the yards. In the distance on her left are three more such sh
26 July 1856
National Maritime Museum