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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Voyages | Sheard, Bradley | Aqua Quest Publications | 1-881652-17-3 | WW1 WW2 U-boat steam engine east coast Atlantic Boston museum |
| Lost Warships | Delgado, James P | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-904-2 | warloss shipwreck archaeology US Roman steel iron steam |
| Lost Wreck of the Isis [The] | Ballard, Robert D | Hodder and Stoughton | 0-340-53178-9 | exploration diving archaeology |
| Louis J Feuchter Chesapeake Bay Artist | Burgess, Robert H | Mariners Museum Newport News | 0-917376-30-7 | art Chesapeake US Feuchter |
| Louis le Breton | Collins, Roger | Coop Breizh Artistes | 978-2-84346-578-9 | French painter Pacific Antarctic expeditions Dumont d’Urville corvette Astrolabe Berceau Romains-Desfosses |
| Love of Sailing [The] | Phillips-Birt, Douglas | Octopus | 0-7064-0453 | tall traing class buoys dinghy yacht racing ocean Americas Cup multihull solo Dutch France Golden Hind |
| Love of Ships [A] | King, George | Kenneth Mason | 0-85937-358-4 | merchany navy autobiography tanker ConwayHMS Falmouth |
| Lovely She Goes | Mitford, William | Michael Joseph | trawlers trawling fishing Grimsby Arctic Fox | |
| Low Black Schooner: yacht America 1851-1945 [The] | Rousmaniere, John | Mystic Seaport Museum | 0-939510-04-9 | yacht America lines |
| Low Walker Yard List 1853-1947 | Keys, Dick | Newcastle Libraries and Information Service | history warship shipyard merchant cargo passenger cruiser gunboat paddle icebreaker oil tanker steamer Low Walker | |
| Lower Deck | Davis, John | Macmillan & Co | destroyer WW2 | |
| Lower deck of the navy 1900-39 [The] | Carew, Anthony | Manchester University Press | 0-7190-0841-7 | Invergordon sociology strike mutiny Yexley-Fisher Churchill Bluejacket Rice Brock London Zealandia |
| Lower Fal in Old Photographs [the] | Gilson, Peter | Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd | 0-7509-0024-5 | Pendennis docks Carrick Roads Penryn Flushing |
| Lower St Lawrence [The] | Brookes, Ivan S | Freshwater Press | Canada Seaway Cunard ferry tug salvage shipbuilding Quebec | |
| Lowered Boats | Dulles, Foster Rhea | George G Harrap | whaling America arctic antarctic mutiny sociology Pacific | |
| Lowestoft East Coast Port | Malster, Robert | Terence Dalton | 0-86138-013-4 | harbour lighthouses pilots lifeboats fishing herring trawlers smacks wherries Yarmouth railways broads shipbuilding Morton Lucas Kirkley Lake Lothing |
| Lowestoft Fishermans War 1914-1918 | Curtis, Alan John | Poppyland Publishing | 978-1-909796-53-9 | WW1 Submarine warfare Lowestoft and North Sea Jellicoe minelaying minesweeping |
| Lowestoft Fishing Vessels Remembered | White, Malcolm R | Malcolm R White | 978-0-9575672-0-7 | trawlers drifters WW2 Second World War Dunkirk losses |
| Lowestoft Fleet List 1978 | Lowestoft Fleet | Port of Lowestoft Research Society | Lowestoft trawler | |
| Lowestoft Through the Ages | Craik, Stuart | Weathercock Press | transport Tupper-Carey porcelain fishing Joseph Conrad | |
| Lubrication in Motor Ships | Lubrication | Shell Petroleum Co Ltd | oil engine diesel propulsion auxiliary electromagnetic | |
| Luck of HMS Dragon [The] | Little, Eric H | Stewart Printing | WW2 South Africa British Navy Prince of Wales Repulse Malaya Japan Java battle Batavia warship Singapore | |
| Lugger Coast [The] | Simper, Robert | Creekside Publishing | 0-953806-4-1 | lugger Devon Cornwall oyster crab port cutter pilot smack |
| Lugworm Chronicles [The] | Duxbury, Ken | Lodestar Books | 978-1-907206-28-3 | dinghy lugger cruising Mediterranean memoirs IoS Scilly |
| Lulworth Shared my Playground | Sibbick, Occomore | Minerva Press | 1-85863-955-7 | yacht cutter racing regatta history Cowes Solent Isle of Wight 1920s |
| Lundy Packets | Tedstone, Mike | Twelveheads Press | 0-906294-47-9 | Gannet Devonia Lerina Polar Bear Oldenburg |
| Lune Shipbuilding Company [The] | White, Andrew | Lancaster City Museums | shipbuilding Lancashire | |
| Lune Valley Engineering Co [The] | Lune Valley | Lune Valley | launch steam boiler engine | |
| Lure and Lore of Londons River | Linney, A G | Sampson Low Marston & Co | Thames canal London Greenwich | |
| Lure of sailing [The] | Pearson, Everett A | Harper & Row | yacht cruising seamanship weather navigation racing RYA | |
| Lure of the Sea | MacAskill, W R | MacAskill | photography art seacsapes poetry Halifax | |
| Lusci’s Ship Model Builders Handbook | Lusci, Vincenzo | Neptune Models | model clipper flag VictoryHMS galley figurehead | |
| Lusitania | Simpson, Colin | Allen Lane/Penguin | Liverpool docks Wilson Webb US Turner Sumner Queenstown Page New York Mersey Malone Lansing Juno | |
| Lusitania [The] | O’Sullivan, Patrick | Collins Press | 1-86227-086-4 | WW1 shipwreck u-boat |
| Lusitania The Cunard Turbine Driven Quadruple Screw Atlantic Liner | Lusitania | Patrick Stephens | 0-85059-847-8 | Cunard history shipbuilder transatlantic steam launch construction cargo steam turbine deckplan liner |
| Lusitania, Robert Ballards | Ballard, Robert D | Madison | 978-1-84425-666-2 | WW1 shipwreck u-boat torpedo Lusitania |
| Lutine Treasure [The] | Molen, S J van der | Adlard Coles | 0-229-97482-1 | salvage frigate gold dredging treasure |
| Luxury Liners Life on Board | Donzel, Catherine | Editions Solar | 978-0-86565-173-9 | passengers liners transatlantic Cunard Hapag Lloyd Messageries Maritimes Compagnie Generale Transatlantique Dollar Line |
| Luxury Yacht [The] | Crabtree, R | David & Charles | 0-7153-6023-X | yacht steam diesel paddlesteamer Victorian screw motor |
| Luxury Yachts [The] | Rousmaniere, John | Time-Life Books | 7054-0642-3 | yacht interior Royal survival |
| Lydia Eva YH89 The Last Steam Drifter | Lewis, Charles | Lydia Eva & Mincarlo Charitable Trust | 0-9519817-0-6 | Lydia Eva drifter steam herring Yarmouth |
| Lyme Regis Uplyme and Charmouth Companion | Bird, Sheila | N J Clarke | 0-907683-0-7 | guide Dorset travel privateer smuggling shipbuilding RNLI |
| Lynmouth Lifeboat [The] | Loveless, John | Lyndale Photographic | Lynmouth lifeboat RNLI | |
| Lythamers, [The] | Kennedy, John | Countryside Publications | 0-86157-195-9 | lifeboat RNLI Lytham crew |
| M S Sovetskiy Voin Type | M S Sovetskiy Voin | Northern Shipping Company | Russia cargo company construction diesel navigation | |
| M/S Corvo of 2007 | Correia, Luis Miguel | Edicoes e Iniciativas Nauticas | 978-972-8536-11-4 | Portugal merchant navy containership |
| M/S Ferder | M/S Ferder | |||
| M/S Lobo Marinho 2003 | Correia, Luis Miguel | Edicoes e Iniciativas Nauticas | 972-8536-04-6 | Portugal Madeira ferry passenger ro-ro |
| MacAndrews Fleet List | Denny, Tony | company fleet | ||
| MacAskill Seascapes and Sailing Ships | MacAskill | Nimbus Publishing | 0-920852-78-5 | photography art seascapes boats fishing Halifax sail |