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!
His Majesty's Ship the Alarm, a fifth Rate... conducting a Spanish Prize into Gibraltar. This print, published by Carington Bowles in 1781, is inscribed: 'His Mjesty's ship the Alarm, a fifth rate carrying 36 Guns, and 300 Men; Conducting a
31 Aug 1781
National Maritime Museum
View of Tetuan, on the Coast of Morocco. Vignette.; Technique includes etching.
31 Aug 1803
National Maritime Museum
The Honourable George Berkley, Rear Admiral of the Red Squadron. Print
31 Aug 1804
National Maritime Museum
'Dromedary' (1808). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the partial inboard profile, and fore and aft platforms for 'Howe' (1805), purchased in India as a frigate, with annotations for her conversion to a twenty-four gun storeship, and rename
31 August 1807
National Maritime Museum
Sir Harry Burrard Neale, Bart K.G.C.B. Stored in mount with PAF3565.
31 Aug 1822
National Maritime Museum
The Amphitrite wrecked off Boulogne Augt 31st 1833. 108 females on board. Hand-coloured.; Plate 3.
1834
National Maritime Museum
Visit of Queen Victoria to Edinburgh, 1842. Arrival of the Royal Yacht Royal George at her anchorage off Inchkeith at Midnight, 31st Aug 1842. Medium includes graphite.; Heightened with white.; Signed by artist and dated. This drawing is a study related t
1842
National Maritime Museum