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!
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John Edye [
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the hold for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John Edye [Assistant Surveyo
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John Edye [Assist
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed by William Edye [Maste
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John E
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'Cornwallis' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Cornwallis' (1813), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted after conversion to screw at Plymouth between October 1854 and April 1855.
Signed John Edye [Assistant S
April 1855
National Maritime Museum
'HMS Beagle' and 'Wrangler'. Medium includes watercolour, bodycolour and black chalk.
1855
National Maritime Museum
'Merlin' and 'Firefly' struck by mines off Sveaborg (Helsinki) during the Crimean War. Vignette inscribed: “Merlin & Firefly struck by infernal machines”. Refers to an occasion when Admiral Dundas, in the ‘Merlin&
1855
National Maritime Museum
. Card-Mica covered with paper, blue with blue and black markings, graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. At centre of card is a hole 3" in dia.
Needle- Four light edge bar needles, composed of one thin strip of steel, 2 x 7.25"
1855
National Maritime Museum
. Card-Mica covered with paper, blue with blue and black markings, graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. At centre of card is hole 3" in dia.
Needle- Four light edge bar needles, composed of one thin strip of steel, 2 x 7.25" and
1855
National Maritime Museum
. Flat-backed earthenware figure group depicting a wounded soldier supported by a sailor. Based on an engraving of 'Landing of the Invalided and the Wounded' Crimea War 'Cassels Illustrated Family Paper' 7 April 1855. The sailor to th
1855
National Maritime Museum
. Scale: 1:12. Model of a suspended and elevating 13 inch mortar (circa 1855). The mortar itself is turned in wood, painted black and mounted in a metal carriage, which can be both raised and lowered horizontally for storage and firing. A slide adjustment
1855
National Maritime Museum
. Sea service pistol. The pistol has a walnut stock with a plain, slightly domed brass butt cap, which is fitted with a lanyard iron ring, a plain brass trigger guard, a simple brass ramrod pipe and a plain brass fore-end cap. The iron ramrod is mounted i
1855
National Maritime Museum
. Swallow-tailed pennant with a blue cross on a red background. Hand-sewn wool bunting. With label 'Taken from the Admiral's barge in the Dockyard of Sebastopol, by a Midshipman of the 'Royal Albert' September 10 1855 Henry...Trollope.
1855
National Maritime Museum
. Sword bayonet. The hilt is steel with a 83mm long leather chequered grip and steel pommel. On the obverse is a steel spring, 64mm long, secured by a screw. On the reverse is a button or dog, being the release-catch of the spring to disengage the bayonet
1855
National Maritime Museum
A North Sea Breeze on the Dutch Coast. Inspired by Dutch 17th-century marine painters, the artist was very interested in creating scenes of Holland and Dutch shore life. He gave this work the secondary title, 'Scheveling fishermen hauling the 'p
1855
National Maritime Museum
A panoramic view of the entrenched position of the allied armies of England & France before Sebastopol comprising the town and harbour of Balaklava & the railway to Kadikoi, also every place of importance or interest in the seat of war.... Archive
1855
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Sir Charles Adam (1780-1853). Head-and-shoulders, classical-style marble bust of Admiral Sir Charles Adam on a round socle, the sitter dressed in a loose tunic close round the neck, his head turned half to his right.
Adam was Governor of Greenwi
circa 1855
National Maritime Museum
Ashantee Medal 1873-4. Awarded to Captain Frederick Edwards HMS Rattlesnake. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria in a diadem and veil (L) Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA" Reverse: A group of soldiers and Africans fighting in the bush for their fallen comra
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Adm Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornam
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Adm Sir Robert Baynes. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Captain Frederick Edwards HMS Nile. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block o
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Captain Henry Augustus Moriarty CB RN. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a bloc
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Captain William Henry Fawckner (1829-1914). Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (left). Legend: 'VICTORIA REGINA'. Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Charles Davis Lucas. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Herbert R Holmes, Midshipman, HMS Neptune from 7 March 1854 to 12 April 1855, HMS Cornwallis from 13 april 1855 to 18 September 1856.
Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "V
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to John Harrison VC. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a na
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to John Sheppard VC. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a na
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Lieutenant Frederick Semple. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamente
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Thomas Barnardiston. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to Vice-Adm Sir N.S.F.Digby. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented w
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to W H Hunkin. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gu
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Awarded to William E Langrish. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russian f
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (left). Legend: 'VICTORIA REGINA'. Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun and trophy, Russia
1855
National Maritime Museum
Baltic Medal 1854-5. Recipient unknown. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (L). Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: Britannia in a helmet holding an upright trident seated on a block ornamented with a naval gun an
1855
National Maritime Museum
Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', reflect
29 September 1855
National Maritime Museum
Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the main deck for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', reflecting the fact
29 September 1855
National Maritime Museum
Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', reflecting the fac
29 September 1855
National Maritime Museum
Bellerophon (1824) [ex Waterloo (1818)]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Waterloo (1818), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as proposed to be fitted as a receiving ship. Note that the plan is titled 'Bellerophon', re
29 September 1855
National Maritime Museum
Black Sea, chart of the South-West Coast of the Krimea from Cape Aia to Alma Bay. By the officers of H.M.S.V. Spitfire.. Single sheet. Col. lith. Physical description Note: Lights coloured. Scale: [ca.1:42 500]. Cartographic Note: Graduated. Soundings and
1855
National Maritime Museum
Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria laureate (L). Below bust "V.R". Legend: "AWARDED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR GALLANTRY IN SAVING LIFE". Reverse: Three men, one of whom is signalling to a rescuing life-
1855
National Maritime Museum
Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria laureate (L). Below bust "V.R." Legend: "AWARDED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR GALLANTRY IN SAVING LIFE". Reverse: Three men, one of whom is signalling to a rescuing life-
1895
National Maritime Museum
Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria laureate (L). Below bust "V.R." Legend: "AWARDED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR GALLANTRY IN SAVING LIFE". Reverse: Three men, one of whom is signalling to a rescuing life-
1860
National Maritime Museum
Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal. Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria laureate (L). Below bust "V.R." Legend: "AWARDED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR GALLANTRY IN SAVING LIFE". Reverse: Three men, one of whom is signalling to a rescuing life-
1896
National Maritime Museum
Bombardment of Fort Arabat by the Sea of Azov Squadron under command of Capt E M Lyons of HMS Miranda. Explosion of the Magazine. original art: drawing
1855
National Maritime Museum
Button, Coastguard uniform: pattern 1855 ?. Three buttons. Twisted rope edge. Within a smooth circular border on a lined background is a pre1901 crown with an anchor underneath. A belt which circles the anchor until it joins upto the crown has COASTGUA
1855
National Maritime Museum
Careening Bay, Sevastopol 1855 showing burnt ships and Fort St Nicholas. Bound with PAG3512, PAG3514-PAG3625, with PAG3591, PAG3623 and PAG3624 loose from the album.; Medium includes graphite.
1855
National Maritime Museum
Chart of North Polar Sea. Shows whole area north of 60 ' N.
NS tracks of JC Ross in 1849 & 1850. Possibly by RT Gould - G.288:1/3 and G.285:4/16.
Coloured areas with key to show international expeditions and discoveries.
1855
National Maritime Museum
Chart of the west coast of South America extending from Valparaiso to Truxillo with plans of the principal harbours drawn chiefly from surveys made by the officers under the orders of Capt Fitzroy R.N.. Scale: circa 1:4,000,000. Blue-backed chart on two s
1865; 1855
National Maritime Museum
Clipper Ship Comet of New York in a hurricane off Bermuda on her voyage from New York to San Francisco, Octr 1852. Hand-coloured.
1855
National Maritime Museum
Colt Navy 1851 Pattern. Percussion revolver owned by Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont 1847-1922. The stock has a polished wood grip with a steel butt plate. There is a solid steel frame and silver plated trigger guard. The lock is a single action, six-chambered
1855
National Maritime Museum
Commander Murray Thomas Parks, 1827 - 77. Oval head and shoulders miniature in watercolour on ivory, in an oval silver suspension locket of which the convex back is inscribed 'MURRAY THOMAS PARKS / 1855 / B. 1827. D. 1877'. The inscription, and
1855
National Maritime Museum
Conspicuous Gallantry Medal. Conspicuous Gallantry Medal awarded to John Sheppard.
Sheppard was serving on the battleship HMS ‘St Jean d’Acre’ during the Crimean War. In 1855 he devised a plan to paddle into Sebastopol harbour by night
1855
National Maritime Museum
Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to MDCCCLIV.. No scale given. Coloured folding chart, linen backed.Folds into cardboard, leather covered box. Gold lettering on front of box reads 'Artic Sea, 1855' and on spine 'Arctic Sea'. Chart show
1855
National Maritime Museum
H.M.S. Amphitrite in the Ice. Sea of Ochotska. Lat. 53o 50'.n. Lony 142o OO'.E. An oval-format watercolour depicting 'Amphitrite' from her port side by Henry Hand inscribed: "H.M.S. Amphitrite in the Ice. Sea of Ochotska. Lat. 53o
1855
National Maritime Museum
HMS Adventure. Figurehead from the troopship HMS 'Adventure' in the form of a female head wearing a crown of stars, and finished with polychrome oil paint. This was an iron-built storeship purchased by the Navy while on the stocks at Laird
1855
National Maritime Museum
HMS Wanderer(1855); Warship; Gunboat; Steam. Scale: 1:48. A contemporary half block model of HMS Wanderer (1855), a steam gunboat (screw).
Number "(48)" on backboard. Plaque inscribed "H M S "Wanderer", 4 guns. 675 tons built at
1855
National Maritime Museum
Hobart penny token. Hobart penny token. Obverse: Emu (left) and kangaroo (right). Legend: 'TASMANIA 1855.' Reverse: Inscription, 'LEWIS ABRAHAMS DRAPER LIVERPOOL STREET HOBART TOWN.'
1855
National Maritime Museum
Horse drawn sleigh. Naval officer? accompanying lady, child and dog. Heightened with white.; Signed by artist and dated.
1855
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the Baltic and Black Sea naval memorial, 1854-5. Medal commemorating the Baltic and Black Sea naval memorial, 1854-55. Obverse: Neptune, a trident in his left and a wreath in his right hand, standing on the seashore, his right leg res
1855
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the capture of Bomarsund, 1854. Medal commemorating the capture of Bomarsund, 1854. Reverse: Head of the Emperor Napoleon III (left). Legend: 'NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR'. Reverse: Inscription, 'PRISE DE BOMAR-SUND PAR LES AR
1855
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the capture of Kinburn, 1855. Medal commemorating the capture of Kinburn, 1855. Obverse: Head of the Emperor Napoleon III (left). Legend: 'NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR.' Reverse: Inscription, referring to the capture by the allied
1855
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the Crimean War (1854-1856). Medal commemorating the Crimean War (1854-1856). Obverse: Head of the Emperor Napoleon III (left). Legend: 'L . NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR.' Reverse: Inscription, 'GUERRE D'ORIENT GÉN
1855
National Maritime Museum
Medal commemorating the Crimean War (1854-1856). Medal commemorating the Crimean War (1854-1856). Obverse: Legend, 'EMPIRE FRANÇAIS' (French Empire). Inscription: 'VOLONTÉ NATIONALE 7.824.189 OUI NAPOLÉON III EMPEREUR 1
1855
National Maritime Museum