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!
Royal George sunk at Spithead, 29th August 1782. Signed by artist and dated.
1800
National Maritime Museum
Sinking of H.M.S. Royal George at Spithead at 9 o'clock A.M. Augt 29th 1782 from an original Drawing in the possession of Henry Slight Esqr by whom this Print is Published 1839. Print
1839
National Maritime Museum
Spithead, with the exact situation and appearance of the Royal George wrecked - with above 600 people on board - 29 August 1782. Others in series are PAF4927-PAF4959, PAF4961-PAF4963.; Page 21. Fourth image.; Text in English with image.
1891
National Maritime Museum
To the Directors and subscribers of the Missionary Society, this portrait of the Ship Duff.... Hand-coloured.
29 Aug 1796
National Maritime Museum
Lighter Number 1 (1804). No scale. A plan showing the upper deck for Lighter Number 1, a single-masted thirty-five foot lighter for Woolwich Dockyard.
Signed by Edward Sison [Master Shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard, 1801-1816].
29 August 1803
National Maritime Museum
Lighter Number 2 (1804). No scale. A plan showing the upper deck of Lighter Number 2 (1804), a single-masted thirty-five foot lighter for Woolwich Dockyard.
Signed by Edward Sison [Master Shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard, 1801-1816].
29 August 1803
National Maritime Museum
64ft Water Carrier (1806). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, modified sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, and midship section proposed [and approved] for a sixty-four foot water carrier (1806).
29 August 1806
National Maritime Museum
64ft Water Carrier (1806). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the deck and platforms proposed [and approved] for a sixty-four foot water carrier (1806).
Initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813], and Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806
29 August 1806
National Maritime Museum
Hindostan (1804). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the inboard profile, spar deck, upper deck, gun deck, and orlop deck for Hindostan (1804), a purchased East Indiaman as converted to a Storeship at Woolwich in 1811. The plan also includes further alterations
29 August 1811
National Maritime Museum
A new song composed by a Royal Marine on board HM Ship Impregnable in Algiers Bay August 29th 1816.. Manuscript entitled 'A new song composed by a Royal Marine on board HM Ship Impregnable in Algiers Bay August 29th 1816'
1816-08-29
National Maritime Museum
This View of the City of Algiers, is dedicated to... Baron Exmouth... by... Charles Rumker. Hand-coloured.
29 Aug 1816
National Maritime Museum