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!
A Plan of the Road of Cherbourg. Hand drawn chart. Breakwaters shown with three ships depicted sailing through them. Arcs of fire from fortifications. Soundings at anchorages. Medium includes pen and ink.
27 Apr 1795
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed 60ft Sailing Mooring Lighter (no date). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for an unnamed sixty foot sinlge-masted sailing mooring lighter (no date) t
27 April 1819
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed 60ft Sailing Mooring Lighter (no date). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck with platforms, for a proposed unnamed sixty foot sailing mooring lighter (no date) for the Cape of Good Hope.
Signed by Henry Peake [Surveyor o
27 April 1819
National Maritime Museum
'Victory' in Portsmouth Harbour, 1827. No. 21 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Drawing inscribed in the upper right 'Victory April 27 – 1827 – Portsmouth Harbour.'
Schetky made a number of drawings of 'Victory' as she
27 April 1827
National Maritime Museum
Capstans on the beach at Brighton with a snatch block; nets and clothes drying, Apr 27 1830. Mounted with PAE5438, PAE5440.
27 Apr 1830
National Maritime Museum
HB Sketches No.479. Something between the sublime & the ridiculous, A conservative vision - a little premature (caricature). Print
27 Apr 1837
National Maritime Museum
Annotated drawing of 'Larkins East Indiaman, April 27th (Thursday) 1843'. No. 5 of 30 (PAH3772 - PAH3801)
If the inscription on PAH3777 is correctly read, Schetky made drawings of the 'Larkins' in the East India Docks. Schetky urged h
27 April 1843
National Maritime Museum