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!
. Bell. Broad arrow on one side, lettering round upper part 'VICTVALING OFFISE AT DOVER 1705'. Remains of canons - rectangular sections without tapering bases. Top moulding wire of two above the inscription is right on the tangent point at the s
1705
National Maritime Museum
A Dutch pink in a heavy sea. This line drawing shows a pink (a small, square-rigged vessel commonly used at the time for fishing) negotiating a heavy sea. Two other pinks and a larger ship at anchor feature in the distance. The efficiency with which the a
1705
National Maritime Museum
A ship dismasted in a gale. Four ships struggle in a stormy sea in this dramatic pen and wash drawing, made towards the end of the artist’s life. The most visible vessel, to the left of centre, is lifted by a wave as it lies-to having lost its mainm
1705
National Maritime Museum
Celestial table globe. Celestial table globe. Astronomical details on the sphere include a labelled magnitude table, inside a cartouche. The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are labelled. Below the cartouche is an address to the reader on precession. A
1705
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the Battle of Malaga, 1704. Counter commemorating the Battle of Malaga, 1704. Obverse: Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737) (right). Legend: 'LOUIS ALEXA . DE BOURBON COMTE DE TOULOUZE ADMIRAL DE FCE
1705
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the Battle of Malaga, 1704. Counter commemorating the Battle of Malaga, 1704. Obverse: Bust of King Louis XIV in a long wig (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX'. Reverse: An eagle scattering thunderbolts upon four wreck
1705
National Maritime Museum
Le de troit de Gibraltar ou sont exactement observee la maree &c.. Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: [ca.1:95 000]. Cartographic Note: North at 354 degrees. Ungraduated. Rhumb lines. Soundings. Contents Note: Bands of tidal flow and currents shown.
1705
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the capture of Barcelona, 1705. Medal commemorating the capture of Barcelona, 1705. Obverse: Bust of King Charles III of Spain in a long wig, armour, mantle, collar and badge of the Golden Fleece. Legend: 'CAROLVS . III . D . G .
1705
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the capture of Reval, 1705. Medal commemorating the capture of Reval, 1705. Obverse: Bust of Czar Peter I, laureate, in armour and cloak (right). Legend: 'PETRVS . ALEXII . FIL . D . G . RVSS . IMP . M . DVX MOSCOVIAE .' Reve
1705
National Maritime Museum
Nouvelle carte des costes d'Espagne avec les plans des ports qui se trouvent sur la coste et dans les isles de Majorque Minorque et Yuice. Par A Massy pilote hauturie sur les galeres du Roy en 1705.. Single sheet. Ms. Physical description Note: Coast
1705
National Maritime Museum
Queen Anne, 1665-1714. (Updated, February 2018) This is one of several recorded studio versions of a portrait of Queen Anne by Michael Dahl (1656-1743), who shared much of the court portraiture of her reign (1702-14) with the older and more distinguished
circa 1714
National Maritime Museum