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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battles of the British Navy | Low, Charles R | George Rouledge & Son | Alfred Crusades Drake Armada Grenville Blake Penn Medway Sandwich Gibraltar Rooke Ogle | |
| Battles of the British navy [The] | Allen, Joseph | Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co | navy armada Trafalgar Nelson Jones | |
| Battles of the Malta Striking Forces [The] | Smith, Peter C | Ian Allan | 0-7110-0528-1 | World War Two WW2 Duisberg convoy HMS Penelope |
| Battleship | Simkins, Peter | Imperial War Museum | navy battleship Bismarck Jellicoe ordnance WW1 WW2 German | |
| Battleship Commanders Order Book [A] | Arbuthnot, R K | J Griffin | regulations Royal Navy | |
| Battleship Cruiser Destroyer | Haines, Gregory | Ian Allan | battleship cruiser destroyer navy USN Dardanelles warloss | |
| Battleship Dreadnought [The] | Roberts, John | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-895-X | DreadnoughtHMS battleship navy Malta WW1 steering electric |
| Battleship Era [The] | Padfield, Peter | Rupert Hart-Davis | 0-246-10570-4 | ironclad guns weapons tactics navy Scapa Flow Malta DreadnoughtHMS Jutland |
| Battleship Sailors | Plevy, Harry | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-151-1 | navy battleship Jutland WarspiteHMS D-Day Matapan sociology |
| Battleship Warspite | Tarrant, V E | Arms & Armour | 0-85368-971-7 | World War Two WW2 Jutland World War One WW1 |
| Battleship Warspite [The] | Watton, Ross | Conway Maritime | 0-85177-921-2 | guns Vickers Oerlikon Rosyth Malta Walrus WarspiteHMS seaplane pinnace |
| Battleships | Preston, Antony | Bison Group | 0-86124-259-9 | battleship WW2 |
| Battleships and Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy Since 1861 | Coward, B R | Ian Allan | 0-7110-1573-2 | list loss aircraft class turret Hector Valiant gun King George V armament Sopwith |
| Battleships and Carriers | Crawford, Steve | Dempsey Parr | 1-84084-327-6 | carrier battleship list nuclear engine Bismarck Dreadnought |
| Battleships in Action Vol 1 | Wilson, H W | Sampson Low, Marston | 0-85177-642-6 | navy battleship tactics warloss Chile Russia Italy Japan |
| Battleships in Action Vol 2 | Wilson, H W | Sampson Low, Marston | 0-85177-642-6 | navy battleship tactics warloss Jutland Jellicoe German |
| Battleships in Transition | Lambert, Andrew | Conway Maritime | 0-85177-315-X | battleship steam navy woodenwall design engine lines |
| Battleships of the Grand Fleet | Burt, R A | Arms and Armour | 0-85368-563-0 | battleship WarspiteHMS shipbreaking |
| Bawleymen [The] | Coombe, Derek | Pennant | 0-9506413-0-8 | fishing Medway dredger bawley oyster doble |
| Bay of Islands Shipping Arrivals and Departures 1803-1840 | Richards, Rhys | Paremata Press | 0-473-01601-X | New Zealand list chronology port whaling Maori register |
| Bay of Storms [The] | Burman, Jose | Human and Rousseau | 0-7981-0670-0 | South Africa history Cape Town Table Bay Dutch fleet history Hottentots De Saldanha harbour port lighthouse shipwreck battle Britain whaling Dutch East India company storms |
| Bay Steamers and Coastal Ferries | Loney, Jack | Reed Pty Ltd | 0-589-503839 | Australia Melbourne |
| BCK Motorboats Vol 1 | Addison, John M | Buckie & District Fishing Heritage Centre | 978-0-9556241-6-2 | seine trawler Lossiemouth Frazerburgh Aberdeen Scotland Banff |
| BCK Motorboats Vol 2 | Addison, John M | Buckie & District Fishing Heritage Centre | 978-0-9556241-7-9 | trawler seine Lerwick Fleetwood Stornoway Rosyth Maryport |
| BCN in Pictures [The] | BCN | The Birmingham Canal Navigations Society | canal Birmingham Wolverhampton narrowboat salvage cargo longboat lock | |
| Beach Boats of Britain | Simper, Robert | Boydell Press | 0-85115-195-7 | Viking coble sixern skiff crab cockle wherry lugger capstan |
| Beachcruising | Alvord, Douglas | International Marine Publishing | 0-87742-973-1 | Maine gear weather navigation environment conservation food kayak safety |
| Beachhead Assault | Lee, David | Greenhill Books | 1-85367-619-5 | navy WW2 amphibious commando Normandy Mediterranean Sicily |
| Beachmen [The] | Higgins, David | Terence Dalton | 0-86138-047-9 | salvage company Norfolk Suffolk shipwreck lifeboat tug |
| Beachy Head | Boyle, Martin | B & T Publications | 1901043118 | lighthouse Beachy Head keepers construction WW1 WW2 optics electrification |
| Beacon on the Rock | Williams, Peter | Aurum | 1-85410-817-4 | light source lens lightships lighthouse design tourism conservation preservation |
| Beadnell a History in Photographs | Porteous, Katrina | Northumberland Library | 0-9513027-6-0 | fishing sociology herring limekiln |
| Beancaker to Boxboat | Dick, H W | Nautical Association of Australia | 0-9599079-3-9 | China merchant company Hong Kong Jardine Matheson Swire Douglas Lapraik Nisshen Kisen China Merchants Tung Japan chronology Dominion Indo China Macao tramp tanker container tug |
| Beardmore | Hume, John R | Heinemann | 0-435-32589-2 | shipbuilding Scotland airship engineering Clyde railway |
| Beardmore Built. Rise and Fall of a Clydeside Shipyard | Johnston, Ian | Clydebank District Libraries & Museums | 0-906938-05-8 | shipbuilding Clyde carrier airship ordnance aircraft tank |
| Beating the Big One | Holkham, Tony | Safe T net | 0-9520305-5-1 | RIB Round Scotland Round Britain Round Ireland Biscay Atlantic challenge |
| Beatty Papers [The] Vol 1 1902-1918 | Beatty Papers | Scolar Press | 0-85967-807-5 | RN navy Singapore Jutland WW1 Dogger Bank |
| Beatty Papers [The] Vol 2 1916-1927 | Beatty Papers | Scolar Press | 0-85967-964-0 | RN navy Singapore Jutland WW1 Dogger Bank |
| Beaufort of the Admiralty | Friendly, Alfred | Hutchinson | 0-09-128500-3 | Beaufort hydrography admiralty navy Napoleonic biography |
| Beaulieu River Goes to War [The] | Cunningham, Cyril | Montagu Ventures Ltd | 0-9523386-0-2 | Hampshire Mulberry D-Day MastodonHMS bomber Shute Westkapelle beetles Southampton Mountbatten Beatty |
| Beautiful Swimmers | Warner, William W | Little Brown | 0-14-004405-1 | crab fishing Chesapeake Bay USA |
| Because the Horn is There | Smeeton, Miles | Nautical | 0-246-12672-8 | yacht cruising |
| Becks Scheepvaartkantoor N V 1861-2003 | Becks | Stegro | 978-90-79152-02-5 | coaster fleet |
| Bed of Nails [A] | Hume, John R | Lang & Fulton | 0-900673-16-8 | Scotland Lang Dunbarton iron steel steam engine industrial Denny Clyde Glasgow paddlesteamer |
| BEF Ships | Winser, John de S | World Ship Society | 0-905617-91-6 | Dunkirk France Dynamo evacuation Canada liner navy CI Channel Isles NMM |
| Before the Aircraft Carrier | Layman, R D | Conway Maritime | 0-85177-516-0 | aviation |
| Before the Box Boats | Kinghorn, A W | Kenneth Mason | 0-85937-297-9 | container refrigeration biography cargo Booth Line heavy lift Adelaide Star |
| Before the Dreadnought | Humble, Richard | Macdonald & Janes | 0-356-08234-1 | RN Trafalgar slaver coal steam steel Crimea Baltic AchillesHMS battleship Victorian chronology |
| Before the Ironclad | Brown, D K | Conway | 0-85177-532-2 | navy shipbuilding dockyard engine steam ordnance propeller |
| Before The Mast | Baynham, Henry | T Fisher Unwin | 0-09-107170-4 | Arctic exploration Crimean War Slave Trade |