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!
. Admiralty transmitting compass Type 4G
Consists of a grey painted metal cylindrical casing 11" (27.9cm) dia. 26" (66cm) high. Two doors in base give access to fore and aft and athwartship corrector magnet racks, and a vertical tube containing
1950
National Maritime Museum
. Course indicator. Square perspex with rotating central disc graduated to 360 degrees. Central disc can be set against scale 20 degrees either side of North to allow for compass error and variation. Small parallel ruler attached to one side of square.
1950
National Maritime Museum
. Sunshine recorder lens (seen here with bowl AST0770) On box Temperate Sunshine Sphere Met.Ref. No 192 Mo.1546/150 Focal length 2'946 Diameter 3'982 Tested by....Date 16.5.50 Ref no. D5511F Chance Brothers Limited Lighthouse Works Smethwick C.B
1950
National Maritime Museum
. Wall panel from Blue Funnel passenger ship 'Patroclus' 1950. The marquetry wall panel is decorated with a clock face in the centre, veneered with seashells, star fish, seaweed and sea horses. Inscribed on a ribbon is the name 'PATROCLUS
1950
National Maritime Museum
. War service plaque from the British Railways ferry SS 'Amsterdam' 1950. Made of copper alloy with the enamelled house flag of British Railways at the top. It is inscribed: 'BRITISH RAILWAYS / S.S."AMSTERDAM" / IS THE THIRD SHIP
1950
National Maritime Museum
Empire Windrush (1930). A port bow view of Empire Windrush (1930), a passenger/cargo ship, alongside in the Western Docks, Southampton. The starboard side quarter of the passenger liner/emigrant ship New Australia (1931) is directly astern of the Empire W
1950
National Maritime Museum
Flying Cloud. Recreation vessel, sailing dinghy, Flying 15 class. The dinghy is called 'Flying Cloud' (K.22). This early example is a wooden double skinned construction hull with a layer of calico between the planking for added strength. Rudder
1950
National Maritime Museum
Leon (1880); Cargo vessel; Brigantine. Scale: 1:96. Harold Underhill wrote extensively on sailing vessels, and he had a productive business making and selling ship plans for modelmakers. His book ‘Plank-on Frame Models’, published by Brown, So
1950
National Maritime Museum
Norah (1868); Cargo vessel; Trow. Scale: 1:16. A modern full hull exhibition model of the Severn trow ‘Norah’ (1868), fully rigged with a complete suit of sails, the whole of which is mounted on turned pillars on a wooden baseboard with a Pers
1950
National Maritime Museum
Prize medal, Stoke on Trent Association of Engineers. Awarded to Sir Harold Spencer Jones. Obverse: A representation in plan of a Supermarine Spitfire aircraft the forepart of which is superimposed on a cloud, a six pointed star each side and a laurel wre
1950
National Maritime Museum
Razor with box. A small metal box containing a razor along with spare blades. The inside of the lid is purple and the words 'VALET Auto Strop Razor Made in England'.
1950
National Maritime Museum
The Port of London Authority is a public trust for public service and provides every port facility for London's vast imperial and foreign trade. Single sheet, coloured lithograph. Scale [circa 1:15,000 (bar)]. The scale is in feet. This is an ungradu
1950
National Maritime Museum
Thermopylae (1868); Cargo vessel; Tea clipper. Scale: 1:192. A waterline model of the composite clipper ‘Thermopylae’ (1868) mounted on a scenic plaster and carved wooden base. The model is decked, fully equipped and rigged with sails set and
1950
National Maritime Museum
United Nations Service Medal for Korea 1950-53. Awarded to Commander Warren Fred Postel USN. Obverse: A world globe within a laurel wreath. Inscriptions on bar and reverse are in Korean script. Suspended from a light blue and white striped ribbon.
National Maritime Museum
Women's Royal Naval Service uniform: pattern 1953. Chief Officer's monkey jacket
1950
National Maritime Museum