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!
31ft Chain Boat (1788). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, section through the windlass, sheer lines with some inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, and full deck plan proposed [and approved] for a thirty-one foot chain boat for Deptford Doc
26 October 1787
National Maritime Museum
Andrew Wilkinson Esqr late Captain of his Majesty's Ship the Grafton.... Print
26 Oct 1787
National Maritime Museum
Christiansborg, a Danish settlement on the Gold Coast, Africa. To His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.... Print. Thebuilding seen in the distance is Christiansborg Castle, near Accra, the headquarters of the Danish settlement on the Gold Coast of West
26 Oct 1806
National Maritime Museum
Christiansborg, a Dutch settlement on the Gold Coast, Africa. To His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.... Hand-coloured.
26 Oct 1806
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Barham in a Squall on the 26th Octr 1833 at 10h. 40m. Am. 'Barham' is depicted in a squall on the 26th October at 10:40am.
This view is one from a series depicting the voyage between England and Constantinople, starting in 1831, which was
1833
National Maritime Museum
The Honorable East India Company's Iron War Steamer, the Ship Nemesis scudding before a heavy gale off the Cape of Good Hope on her passage from England to China. The Nemesis was the first iron steam vessel that passed the Cape of Good Hope.... Print
26 Oct 1841
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) Sketch of two young women, one sitting and reading the other stretching and yawning (drawn by Lord Bury) with a drawing of a tree alongside; (Verso) HMS 'Queen' off the 'Island of Brada, Ivisa' [Ibiza?] 26 October 1851. No. 11
circa October 1851
National Maritime Museum