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!
'Northumberland' (1750). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for 'Northumberland' (1750), a 1745 Establishment 64-gun Third
1750-1777
National Maritime Museum
A new map of Virginia Maryland and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New-Jersey. Most humbly inscribed to the Right Honble. the Earl of Orkney etc Knight of ye most noble and ancient Order of ye Thistle 1719. Revised by I. Senex. Single sheet. Hand
1719
National Maritime Museum
Britannia (1719); Warship; First rate; 100-guns. Scale: 1:48. A block model of the ‘Britannia’ (1719), a 100-gun three-decker, first-rate ship of the line. Scale: 1:48. A block model of the first rate 100-gun ship Britannia (1719) made entirel
1719
National Maritime Museum
Celestial pocket globe. Celestial pocket globe - case for the terrestrial pockte globe. Spherical case consisting of two hinged hemispheres with two hook and eye clasps. It is lined with gores depicting the celestial sphere. There is a magnitude table in
1719
National Maritime Museum
Chatham (1721). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with platform details, proposed (and approved) for Chatham (1721), a 1719 Establishment 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
November 1719
National Maritime Museum
Counter commemorating the new naval gun. Counter commemorating new naval gun. Obverse: Bust of Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737) (right). Legend: 'L . ALEXA . DE BOURBON C . DE TOULOUZE ADMIRAL DE FCE.' Reverse:
1719
National Maritime Museum
Falkland (1720). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for Falkland (1720), a 1719 Establishment 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
1719
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the capture of Marstrand, 1719. Medal commemorating the capture of Marstrand, 1719. Obverse: Bust of King Frederick IV in a long wig and drapery resting on a shelf (right). Legend: 'DOMINVS MIHI ADIVTOR.' (The Lord is my Help
1719
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the capture of three Swedish frigates, 1719. Medal commemorating the capture of three Swedish frigates, 1719. Obverse: Bust of Czar Peter I, laureate, in armour and cloak (right). Legend in Russian (Peter the First, Emperor of the Rus
1719
National Maritime Museum
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Geographical details on the terrestrial sphere include hatched ocean regions between the tropics, and trade winds indicated by arrows. There is a compass rose west of Australi
1719
National Maritime Museum