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!
Cormorant (captured 1796). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Cormorant (captured 1796), a captured French Corvette, as taken off prior to being fitted as a 20 gun Si
28 December 1796
National Maritime Museum
Cormorant (captured 1796). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck with aft platform for Cormorant (captured 1796), a captured French Corvette, as taken off prior to being fitted as a 20 gun Sixth Rate Corvette. The plan has the ship under her original
28 December 1796
National Maritime Museum
Cormorant (captured 1796). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Cormorant (captured 1796), a captured French Corvette, as taken off prior to being fitted as a 20 gun Sixth Rate Corvette. The plan has the ship under her original French name of Et
28 December 1796
National Maritime Museum
Wreck of the Anson Frigate, on the Loe Pool Bar of Sand, in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, December 28th 1807. Showing H Trengrouse's Rocket Apparatus for the preservation of lives and property. Hand-coloured.
1833
National Maritime Museum
The Chesapeake & Shannon. Engraved for the Naval Monument. Technique includes etching.
28 Dec 1815
National Maritime Museum
Euryalus (1803). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the alterations proposed for fitting the iron tiller to Euryalus (1803), a 36-gun Fifth Rate Frigate. Signed Nicholas Diddams [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, March 1803 - January 1823].
28 December 1821
National Maritime Museum
(Recto) HMS 'Trafalgar' off Sheerness, from the 'Shannon', 28 December 1850; (Verso) studies including Thames barges, a lady and gentleman walking, and trees. No. 6 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884). .
(Recto) Inscribed top left: 'H.M.
28 December 1850
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the hold of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860), along with sections at Stations 39, 41, 45, 70, 87 and 89.
Undated minor alterations carried out at Portsmouth are picked out in red in
28 December 1861
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the inboard profile of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860). In addition to the main drawing there is a small section through the upper deck beam at frame 3. Undated minor alterations car
28 December 1861
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the lower deck of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860). The plan includes a partial inboard elevation illustrating the arrangement of the portside sail bin, shell racks, bag racks and coa
28 December 1861
National Maritime Museum
'Warrior' (1860). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the main deck of the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860) as fitted at Woolwich Dockyard.
Undated minor alterations carried out at Portsmouth are picked out in red ink.
Signed by George Tu
28 December 1861
National Maritime Museum