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!
. Calendar for the single year of 1767. The calendar is made from a thin disc of bronze and the lettering is worn. On one side of the calendar is a table with the months in three letter abbreviations and a table with the numbers for the number of days. Ar
1767
National Maritime Museum
. Spherical equinoctial dial for latitude circa 51° North. A turned plaster pillar (which is very chipped) supports a spherical plaster ball. There is a cylindrical hole in the underside of the base where the dial was once fixed to a plinth. The dial
1767
National Maritime Museum
A View of Dover from the Pier, 1767. This comparatively early drawing by Gore is drawn on joined sheets of paper and has the appearance of having been drawn from life. It shows on the right, two cutters possibly belonging to the Revenue and in the left fo
1767
National Maritime Museum
Carysfort (1766), Levant (1758). Scale 1:96. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half breadth for Levant (1758) and Carysfort (1766), both 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigates.
Date unknown as Carysfort not launched until 1766
c. 1766
National Maritime Museum
Egmont (1768). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, with later alterations, proposed (and approved) for 'Egmont' (1768), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, building at Deptford Dockyard.
Circa October 1767
National Maritime Museum
Grafton (1771); Fortitude (1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for building Grafton (1771), and with approved alterations dated 1778 for Fortitude (1780), both 74-gun Third Rat
22 September 1767
National Maritime Museum
Halfpenny. A halfpenny. Obverse: Engraved on a smooth surface, a starboard bow view of a brig under sail. Inscription above: '1767'. Reverse: A brig under sail similar to obverse. Inscription (above): 'W.B.'
1767
National Maritime Museum
Lifesaving Society of Amsterdam, Silver Medal. Obverse: A woman kneeling, bending over a prostrate figure of a man lying on the grassy bank of a canal, her left arm upraised, holding back the scythe held by a skeleton figure of death (R) a house and tree
National Maritime Museum
Monmouth (1772). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for building Monmouth (1772), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan includes a mast and yard dimension table.
Signed by Joh
22 September 1767
National Maritime Museum
Plan of Dunkirk with the canal of Mardick, as they were in 1757. Plate V.
1767
National Maritime Museum
Princess Royal (1773). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some decoration detail, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for 'Princess Royal' (1773), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, to be build Portsmouth
22 September 1767
National Maritime Museum
Salisbiry (1769); Centurion (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck proposed for Salisbury (1769), and later used for Centurion (1774), both 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers.
Circa October 1767
National Maritime Museum
Salisbury (1769); Centurion (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) proposed for Salisbury (1769), and later used for Centurion (1774), both 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers.
Circa October 1767
National Maritime Museum
Salisbury (1769); Centurion (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile proposed (and approved) for Salisbury (1769), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. Alterations were sent in May 1770 relating to fitting an awning and an additional two cabin
Circa October 1767
National Maritime Museum
Salisbury (1769); Centurion (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore & aft platforms for Salisbury (1769) and later for Centurion (1774), both 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers.
Circa October 1767
National Maritime Museum
Salisbury (1769); Centurion (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle proposed for Salisbury (1769), and later used for Centurion (1774), both 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers. The quarterdeck was altered to an order dated 18 May 1
Circa October 1767
National Maritime Museum
A flag officer, previously thought to be Sir Chaloner Ogle (1729-1816), Admiral of the Red. A three-quarter-length portrait showing the sitter turned half to viewer's right, in the flag officer's full-dress uniform of 1767-83 and apparently wear
1767-83
National Maritime Museum
'Raisonnable' (1768) [Alternative spelling: Raisonable]. Scale: 1:48. A ship plan showing the inboard profile for 'Raisonnable' (1768), a 64-gun Third Rate two-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard.
Signed by Thomas Slade [Surveyor of
21 January 1767
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Ancient Royal Palace called Placentia, in East Greenwich. Vol II. Plate XXV. Basire's plate of the Tudor palace of Greenwich for the Society of Antiquaries, taken from a drawing in the Bodleian Library. The towers on the left are those
23 April 1767
National Maritime Museum