The Bartlett Library holds some 18,000 volumes on our open shelves, having grown by gift and purchase, from the core collection of 6,000 volumes, generously donated by our benefactor J. V. Bartlett Esq., in 2003.
Significant loans from the Cornwall Library Service (including a number of Lloyd’s Registers), together with gifts from many individuals have greatly increased the size and value of the collection since our establishment in 2003, supplemented by the Peter and Julie Newall Library in 2018.
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Looking at Sails | Banks, Bruce | Nautical | 0-245-53190-4 | sails aerodynamic construction |
| Looking Back | Anderson, Donald McLean | D M Anderson | whaling Peterhead Scotland fishing lifeboat sociology inuit casualty shipwreck telegraph Marconi icebreaker Canada | |
| Looking Back at Bristol Channel Shipping | Wiltshire, Andrew | Bernard McCall | 978-1-902953-46-5 | passenger ferry freighter tug paddle steamer |
| Looking Back at British Tugs | Wiltshire, Andrew | Bernard McCall | 978-1-902953-28-1 | Cornwall salvage diesel survey Medway Thames IoW |
| Looking Back at Bulk Carriers | Wiltshire, Andrew | Bernard McCall | 978-1-902953-58-8 | cargo bulk carrier Cape-size |
| Looking Back at Classic Tankers | Wiltshire, Andrew | Bernard McCall | 928-1-902953-36-6 | tanker |
| Looking back at Container Ships | Wiltshire, Andrew | Coastal Shipping | 978-1-902953-87-8 | Container ship ocean coastal |
| Looking Back at Refrigerated Ships | Wiltshire, Andrew | Bernard McCall | 978-1-902953-54-0 | New Zealand reefer Blue Star |
| Looking Back at Traditional Cargo Ships | Wiltshire, Andrew | Bernard McCall | 978-902953-69-4 | Cargo liners |
| Looking Back Liverpool and New Brighton | Wilkinson, Colin | Editions Ltd | 1-872568-04-1 | |
| Looking back to yesterday | Cowls, Bert | B Cowls | Porthleven fishing mining smuggling wrecking WW1 First World War Loe | |
| Looking for the Silver Lining | Barraclough, Martin | Bound Biographies | 978-1-905178-28-5 | Webster Barraclough Dene Silver list Seabridge Hartlepool tramp WW2 chemical Japan Vlasov HBS Cars |
| Lookoutman [The] | Bone, David W | Jonathan Cape | Liners steam yachts dredges pleasure steamers fishing craft coasters tramp steamers oil tankers mail liners | |
| Looming Lights | Carter, George Goldsmith | Constable | lightship Aldeburgh smuggling tide dyke yacht steam | |
| Lord Fisher Vol 1 | Bacon, R H | Hodder and Stoughton | biography navy Fisher ExcellentHMS DreadnoughtHMS | |
| Lord Fisher Vol 2 | Bacon, R H | Hodder and Stoughton | biography navy Fisher Dardanelles WW1 | |
| Lord High Admiral [The] | Cornford, L Cope | Williams and Norgate | Royal Navy RN Royal Naval Reserve RNR shipwreck Western Maid WW1 destroyer submarine Blessed Endeavour | |
| Lords of the East | Sutton, Jean | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-169-6 | East India Company EIC owners freight commanders pay crew sail steam routes |
| Lords of the Lake | Malcomson, Robert | Robin Brass Studio Canada | 1-86176-112-0 | St Lawrence US Chauncey Yeo blockade Sackets Kingston British Genesee dockyards Oswego |
| Lore of Ships [The] | Lore of Ships | Nordbok | yacht rigging sail plan gear engine windlass flag funnelspar | |
| Lore of the Lakes | Bowen, Dana Thomas | Dana Thomas Bowen | Great Lakes vessel fleet history trade passenger | |
| Lorton and Edinburgh Sailing Ship Diaries 1911-1916 | Cleeve, John A | Channel Isle of Wight Gravesend Canary Isles journal merchant navy sail | ||
| Los Angeles Worldport LA Shipping Handbook 1988 | Los Angeles Worldport | |||
| Loss List of Grimsby Vessels 1800-1960 | Boswell, David | Grimsby Public Libraries and Museum | 900007-00-1 | catalogue list museum shipwreck warloss |
| Loss of HMS Montagu Lundy 1906 [The] | Loss of HMS Montagu | G M & R C Davis | 0-9507391-0-3 | MontaguHMS Lundy shipwreck warship |
| Loss of the Bismark [The] | Rhys-Jones, Graham | Cassell | 0-304-35314-0 | German navy Bismarck loss WW2 |
| Loss of the Kent East Indiaman [The] | Macgregor, Duncan | Religious Tract Society | shipwreck rescue fire | |
| Loss of the Motor Trawler Gaul [The] | Nicklin, John | Hutton Press | 1-872167-94-2 | |
| Loss of the SS Treveal [The] | Pushman, David | Downsway Books | 0-9517621-2-5 | shipwreck Cornwall Hain company |
| Loss of the Stella [The] | Shayer, David | Guernsey CI Channel Isles shipwreck | ||
| Loss of the Titanic [The] | Beesley, Lawrence | Philip Allan | Titanic RMS shipwreck Carpathia lifeboat | |
| Lost at Sea | Pearsall, Ronald | Todtri | 1-880908-52-2 | shipwreck Egypt Greece exploration iron steam TitanicRMS |
| Lost at Sea Marianne | Trenoweth, Roger | Mennear shipwreck | ||
| Lost Caravel [The] | Langdon, Robert | Pacific Publications | 0-85807-021-9 | Tahiti Amau New Zealand Opea Loaisa expedition Cook Spain |
| Lost Cornwall | Thomas, Joanna | Birlinn | 978-1-78027-419-5 | Methodism tin mining farming fishing pilchards Newlyn School packet ships transport Cornish Clay Delabole slate lifeboats wrecking smuggling |
| Lost Islands | Stommel, Henry | University of British Columbia Press | 0-7748-0210-3 | chart navigation mystery astro Pacific California |
| Lost Liners | Ballard, Robert D | Hodder & Stoughton | 0-340-69657-5 | liner shipwreck LusitanniaRMS TitanicRMS |
| Lost off Trevose | French, Brian | History Press | 978-0-7524-5689-8 | shipwreck Cornwall lighthouse WW1 u boat trawler cargo shipowner sail schooner naval steam motor vessel Bishop Rock |
| Lost One [The] | Beaudout, Henri | Hodder and Stoughton | Falmouth Kontiki raft Atlantic Cornwall voyage | |
| Lost Patrols | McCartney, Innes | Periscope Publishing | 1-904381-04-9 | submarine channel shipwreck |
| Lost Photographs of the RNLI | Wake-Walker, Edward | Sutton | 0-7509-3718-1 | RNLI lifeboat photography rescue shipwreck Cornwall Devon |
| Lost Ports of Cornwall [The] | Lost Ports of Cornwall | Tor Mark Redruth | 0-85025-345-4 | Bude Boscastle Tintagel Wadebridge St Agnes |
| Lost Ships of Guadalcanal [The] | Ballard, Robert D | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 0-297-81305-6 | Pacific WW2 destroyer Japan US navy Australia cruiser Fiji |
| Lost Ships of Pisa [The] | Sedge, Michael H | ibooks | 0-7434-5265-8 | Italy archaeology Roman shipbuilding Mediterranean trade |
| Lost Ships of the Royal Navy 1793-1900 [The] | Gosset, W P | Mansell Publishing | 0-7201-1816-6 | chronology list geography fleet navy |
| Lost Ships of the West Country | Langley, Martin | Stanford Maritime | 0-540-07431-4 | Brixham Dart Devon Plymouth Tamar Looe Fowey Helford Newlyn Bristol Cornwall |
| Lost Shipyards of the Tyne | French, Ron | Tyne Bridge/City of Newcastle Upon Tyne Libraries | 1-85795-122-0 | Tyne shipbuilding wood iron SwanH crane Cunard Canadian Pacific |
| Lost Trawlers of Hull 1835-1987 | Gill, Alec | Hutton Press | 0-907033-77-6 | fishing Hull trawler warloss casualty shipwreck |
| Lost Treasure Ships of the Twentieth Century | Pickford, Nigel | Pavilion Books | 1-86205-079-1 | salvage gold TitanicRMS Bombay list Arctic convoy shipwreck |
| Lost Voices of the Royal Navy | Arthur, Max | Hodder & Stoughton | 0-340-83814-0 | Gallipoli submarine Scharnhorst Hill Exeter Beatty Bismarck Ledbury |