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!
. Artificial horizon with a DC-driven gyro in a metal case. The mirror is gimballed and is contained in a gimballed cylinder within the case.
1923
National Maritime Museum
. Liquid compass
Bowl: White metal painted black. Fill hole on side. Azimuth circle. Expansion chamber beneath bowl. Bowl rests on spring plate. Has four steadying arms at side. White inside with black lubber spike. Glazed.
Card: Thin strip of paper with
1923
National Maritime Museum
. Scale: Unknown. A model of a Hall's anchor improved by N Hingley & Sons Ltd, sanctioned in 1923. The model is made entirely in aluminium alloy. The shank is square in section with rounded sides and at the top of the shank there is a D-shackle t
1923
National Maritime Museum
. Scale: Unknown. A model of a Hall's anchor improved by N. Hingley & Sons Ltd, sanctioned in 1923. The model is made entirely in an unknown metal with a galvanised finish. The shank is square in section and at the top of the shank there is a D-s
1923
National Maritime Museum
. This is a small wooden box containing a number of lead masses and a coin. This is a part of ZBA7932 / LOA0131.
1923
National Maritime Museum
Badge of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes. Badge of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes. Founder's jewel. Obverse: Badge of the Order of Buffaloes with motto inscribed on blue enamelled scroll. Motto: 'NEMO MORTALIUM OMNIBUS HORI
1923
National Maritime Museum
Button, Royal Marines uniform: pattern 1923. Button.Button. Domed. Smooth edge. Around the bottom edge going up either side is a wreath of leaves. Within the wreath on a raised circular border with a stippled background is ROYAL MARINES. In the centre is
1923
National Maritime Museum
Medalet commemorating Save the 'Victory' Fund. Medalet commemorating Save the 'Victory' Fund. Obverse: Starboard view of HMS 'Victory' and two other ships. Legend: 'SAVE THE "VICTORY" FUND'. Reverse: Insc
1923
National Maritime Museum
Medalet commemorating Save the 'Victory' Fund. Medalet commemorating Save the 'Victory' Fund. Obverse: Starboard view of HMS 'Victory' and two other ships. Legend: 'SAVE THE "VICTORY" FUND'. Reverse: Insc
1923
National Maritime Museum
Moss's Wharf, Old Greenwich, 1923. The ramshackle waterfront buildings of R. Moss & Sons, Crane Wharf, 11-13 Crane Street, East Greenwich, immediately east of the Yacht public house (formerly the Yacht Hotel), with the bow of what may be a Dutch
1923
National Maritime Museum
Off Cowes, 1923: the yachts 'Britannia', 'Terpsichore' and 'Ilyrica'. Three yachts are shown racing off Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 1923. The painting is thought to show the yachts 'Britannia','Terpsichore' a
1923
National Maritime Museum
Passenger vessel; Canoe, Nyanza. Scale: Unknown. A model of a Nyanza canoe (Lake Victoria, East Africa) made entirely in wood which is unpainted and unvarnished. The hull consists of a dugout base with broad planks sewn onto it with raffia fibre, with l
1923
National Maritime Museum
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1904. Admiral's full dress coat. Coat belonged to Admiral Sir Richard Webb.
1923
National Maritime Museum
Shotley medal. Obverse: Within a lifebelt a three masted square rigger with sails set. Naval crown and anchor below. Legend: "FOR MERIT AND EFFICIENCY THE SHOTLEY MEDAL". Reverse: Bust of Nelson in undress uniform. Legend: "ENGLAND EXPECTS
1923
National Maritime Museum
The last of the Actaeon Woolwich 10/2/23. Drawing depicting the Actaeon II (1906) mooring in Woolwich. Medium includes graphite.
1923
National Maritime Museum
Type O.1. Observer's compass-Experimental Model
Bowl: Brass painted black. Fill hole on side. Glazed. Expansion chamber on underside of bowl. Bowl fitted to spring plate and has four steadying arms on side. Vernier on base plate. White inside with 90
1923
National Maritime Museum