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!
. A goblet with a bucket bowl, a plain stem with two tear-shaped bubbles and a domed foot with a pontil mark. The bowl is wheel-engraved with a merchantman. Inscribed around the rim: 'SUCCESS TO THE PROVIDENCE AND JON ELLIOT.'
1740
National Maritime Museum
A new map or chart of the western or Atlantic ocean with part of Europe, Africa and America: shewing the course of the galleons, flota &c. to and from the West Indies.. Single sheet, engraving. Scale: [circa 1:17,000,000]. Graduated for latitude and l
1740
National Maritime Museum
Admiral The Honourable Charles Stewart, 1681-1741. (Updated, August 2015) A three-quarter-length portrait to right, wearing a blue velvet coat lined with red silk, blue breeches and a red waistcoat laced with gold. His dress wig is white and he reclines a
1740
National Maritime Museum
Dreadnought (1742); Medway (1742). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Dreadnought (1742) and Medway (1742), both 1733 Establishment 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers. The plan notes
19 December 1740
National Maritime Museum
Dreadnought (1742); Medway (1742). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, quarterdeck cabin plan, and longitudinal half-breadth for building Dreadnought (1742) and Medway (1742), both 1733 Establishment 60-gun Fourth Ra
Circa December 1740
National Maritime Museum
Exeter (1744). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline with some detail, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Exeter (1744), 60-gun fourth Rate, two-decker. The plan has some differences to ZAZ1684,
Circa April 1740
National Maritime Museum
Exeter (1744). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board with some detail, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Exeter, a 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Peirson Lock [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1726-1742]
Circa 1740-1742
National Maritime Museum
Hastings (1741); Liverpool (1741). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with some frame detail, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Hastings (1741) and Liverpool (1741), both 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-deckers building at Li
1740
National Maritime Museum
Mars (1740); Warship; Fourth rate; 64guns. Scale: 1:96. Block model of the 'Mars' (1740), a French 64-gun, two-decker ship of the line.
1740
National Maritime Museum
Portus Pulchri, on Isthmo Panamensi siti accurata Ichnographia ex prototypo Londinensi, desumta prostat in Officina Homaniana 1740 cum Privil S. Coes Majest. Technique includes engraving.
1740
National Maritime Museum
Rupert (1740); Warship; Fourth rate; 60 guns. Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ‘Rupert’ (1740), a 60-gun, two-decker ship of the line. The model has dimensions very close to those of the Establishment of 1733 for 60-gun ships and was v
1740
National Maritime Museum
Scenographia Portus pulchri ex prototypo Londinensi recusa per Heredes Homannianos. Technique includes engraving.
1740
National Maritime Museum
The Honble Edward Vernon Esqr. Vice Admiral of the Blue And Commander in Chief of all His Majestie's Ships in the West-Indies. To the Rt: Hon: ble the Lord Mayor the Court of Aldermen & ye Common Council of ye City of London, this Plate is humbly
1740
National Maritime Museum
Warship; Sixth rate; 24 guns. Scale: 1:48. A block design model of a 24-gun sixth-rate sloop (circa 1740). The model probably represents the design for the 1741 Establishment ships like the ‘Sheerness’, launched at Rotherhithe in 1743. They we
1740
National Maritime Museum
Robert Blake General and Admiral of the Forces of England &c Denatus 17 Aug 1657 Aetat 59. Technique includes etching.; Text in English below title.
24 Jan 1740
National Maritime Museum
Robert Blake, General and Admiral of the Forces of England. Technique includes engraving and etching.; Text in English below image.
24 Jan 1740
National Maritime Museum
Hastings (1741). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Hastings (1741), a 1733 Establishment 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Jacob E. Acworth [Surveyor of the Navy, 1715
14 February 1740
National Maritime Museum
The Rt Honble The Lord Aubrey Beauclerck slain at Cartagena in America, Feb the 24th 1740/1, in the 31st year of his Age. Text in English below image.
1746
National Maritime Museum
The Rt Honble The Lord Aubrey Beauclerck Slain at Cartagena in America, Feb: 24th 1740/1 in the 31st Year of his Age. Technique includes etching.
1746
National Maritime Museum
European Race for A Distance. Anno Dom. MDCCXXXX (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
26 Feb 1740
National Maritime Museum
To James Vernon... This Plate... Taking of Porto Bello by Adml Vernon Novr 22nd 1739... (shows the 'Burford' and 'Hampton Court'). Print. This print was the basis for George Chambers 1838 painting of the event (BHC0355), commissioned b
23 Mar 1740
National Maritime Museum
The European State Jockies Running a Heat for the Balance of Power (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
25 Mar 1740
National Maritime Museum
This Plan of the Harbour, Town and Forts of Porto Bello (taken by Edward Vernon Esqr Vice Admiral of the Blue on 22nd of November 1739. With six Men of War only) (with key). Print.
27 Mar 1740
National Maritime Museum
A Perspective view of ye Harbour, Castles & Town of Porto Bello... Vice Admiral Vernon... took the same on 22nd of November 1739... (with key). Print
21 Apr 1740
National Maritime Museum
An exact prospect of the town of Carthagena in the Spanish West Indies [and] A New & exact plan of the harbour town & forts of Carthagena in the West Indies from a Spanish draught taken by Sr D'anville Geographer to the King of Spain (with de
1 May 1740
National Maritime Museum
Spanish Insolence chastized or a View of the Town Port & Forts of Porto Bello a------ by 6 of his Majesties Ships of War under the Command of Vice Admiral Vernon on ye 21 November 1739. Text in English below image.
3 May 1740
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Hosiers Ghost. The poet Richard Glover (1712–85) penned ‘Hosier’s Ghost’ in 1739. The rhyme was designed to rouse British sympathies against the Spanish. Hosier had been involved in the blockade of the Caribbean port of Por
July 1740
National Maritime Museum
Kinsale (1741). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Kinsale (1741), a 1733 Establishment, 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-decker. The annotation relating to the plan being returned and the C
16 July 1740
National Maritime Museum