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!
'Henry Boyle. Lord Carleton'. Half-lenght portrait of Henry Boyle Lord Carleton by Jacobus Houbraken after Sir Godfrey Kneller. The sitter is depicted in a baroque cartouche. Three sacks of gold coins and a mace are represented below, a referenc
1741
National Maritime Museum
Canterbury (1744). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Canterbury (1744), a 1741 Establishment 60-gun Fourth rate, two-decker.
Signed by Peirson Lock [Mas
August 1741
National Maritime Museum
Humber (1726); Unnamed 66-gun third Rate, two-decker. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with sternboard outline, inboard profile, and an incomplete longitudinal half-breadth for Humber (1736), an 80-gun Third Rate, three-decker. She was renamed Pri
Circa 1726
National Maritime Museum
Newark (1747). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, longitudinal half-breadth for Newark (1747), a 1741 Establishment 80-gun Third Rate, three-decker.
Signed by John Ward [Master Shipwright, Chatham Dockyard, 1732-1752].
6 January 1742
National Maritime Museum
Norwich (1718). Scale: 1:32. Plan showing the elevation and plan for the furnace, and an elevation of the lead and copper pipes leading from the furnace to the hold on Norwich (1718), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. This plans shows the method of draw
December 1741
National Maritime Museum
Revenge (1742); Monmouth (1742). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and a basic superimposed longitudinal half-breadth for Revenge (1742) and Monmouth (1742), both 1733 Establishment 70-gun Third Rate, two-deck
1741
National Maritime Museum
The Right Honble Sir John Norris, Vice-Admiral of England, Admiral and Commander in Chief of His Majesties Fleets &c - and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council. Print
1741
National Maritime Museum
Torrington (1743). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Torrington (1743), a 1741 Establishment 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-decker.
Signed by Jacob E. Acworth [Surveyor of the Navy, 1715-
29 January 1742 [Old Style: 1741]
National Maritime Museum
Wolf (1742). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Wolf (1742), a 14-gun two-masted Sloop building Deptford by Mr West. The ship was snow-rigged with sixteen pairs of row-ports.
Circa 1741
National Maritime Museum
Devonshire (1745); Newark (1747). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Devonshire (1745) a 1741 Establishment 80-gun Third Rate, three-decker. The plan shows the p
circa 1746-7
National Maritime Museum
The South-West Prospect of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk. Text in English below image.
7 Jan 1741
National Maritime Museum