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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before the Mast and After | Runciman, Walter | T Fisher Unwin | biography shipowner shanty poetry | |
| Before the Mast in Sailing Ships | Mason, John | W R Mackintosh | sail steam memoir captain trade Mason | |
| Before the Mast in the Grain Races of the 1930s | Robertshaw, Geoffrey Sykes | Blue Elvan Books | 978-0-9559950-0-2 | tall ship Winterhude log Olivebank Ponape barque grain race sailplan |
| Before the Mast In the Grain Races of the 1930s | Robertshaw, Geoffrey Sykes | Blue Elvan Books | 978-0-9559950–0-2 | Tall ships Olivebank Winterlude Ponape personal log grain races sailplan four masted barque |
| Before the Wind | Tyng, Charles Memoir of American Sea Captain 1808-1833 | Penguin | 0-14-02-9191-1 | USA merchant mariners schooner Zephyr Munroe brig Creole |
| Beginner in Sail [A] | Williamson, J A | Edward Arnold | yacht cruising seamanship | |
| Beginners Guide to Canoeing | Byde, Alan | Pelham Books | 0-7207-0628-9 | canoeing resue competition |
| Beginners Guide to Motor Cruising | Cove-Smith, Christopher | Pelham | 0-7207-0631-9 | yacht motor cruising seamanship safety engine canal lifeboat |
| Behar Massacre [The] | Sibley, David | A Lane Publishers | 1-897666-13-6 | WW2 Hain Japan navy crime |
| Behind Japanese Lines | Oakley, Derek | Royal Marines Historical Society | Walker Maxwell Smith Penang Operations Burma Siam Malaya Sumatra Nicobar Islands Chaungtha Ngayokkaung Sinma Copyright Bruteforcce Noah Pagoda Point Meridian Defraud Clearance Baker Fairy Carpenter Graph Slumber Declare and Subtract | |
| Beijing to Barbados in a Rowboat | Havrahad, Christian | Impact Books | 988-97427-2-1 | rowing Atlantic |
| Beken Album [The] | Collier, William | Harvill Press | 1-86046-674-5 | yacht J racing Britannia Cowes America photography |
| Beken File [The] | Beken, Keith | Libraire Arthaud, Paris | 0-906781-02-7 | Beken photography |
| Beken of Cowes 1 1897 -1914 | Beken of Cowes | Cassell | Royal Yacht Squadron racing J-class Shamrock Britanna Navahoe Valkyrie Susanne Cicely Vigilante Westward Defender White Heather Stormvogel Ondine Bolero Caprice | |
| Beken of Cowes 2 1919-1939 | Beken of Cowes | Cassell | 304-93429-1 | sail racing regatta yacht photography Royal Yacht Squadron |
| Beken of Cowes: A Century of Tall Ships | Beken, Kenneth J | Harrop | 0-245-54248-5 | tall schooner Cowes Beken |
| Belastingmuseum Prof Dr van der Poel | Belastingmuseum | tax smuggling hallmark excise | ||
| Belfast Built Ships | Lynch, John | The History Press | 978-0-7524-6539-5 | Harland Wolff McIlwaine losses Workman Clark Hickson Ireland |
| Belfast Harbour Commissioners Centenary 1847-1947 | Belfast Harbour | port harbour history shipbuilding trade docks quays tide navigation channels crane imports exports pilotage | ||
| Belgisch Marinekorps 1939-1940 | Raemdonck, Jasper Van | De Krijger | 90-72547-87-X | WW2 |
| Belgische Scheepvaart [De] / La Navigation Belge | Belgische Scheepvaart | Europese Biblioteheek / Biblioteque Europeenne | 90-288-0041-7 | Belgium sail steam tug pleasureboat passenger canals harbours |
| Belles of the East Coast | Box, Peter | Tyndale & Panda | 1-870094-08-5 | Belle company paddlesteamer excursion Lowestoft pier Medway |
| Bells of All Nations | Morris, Ernest | Robert Hale Ltd | bell US Europe Africa Canada Japan China Australia | |
| Beloved Respected and Lamented | Chandler, J E | White Horse Bookshop | Bligh Bounty mutiny Fletcher Christian Pacific | |
| Below Sea Reach | Below Sea Reach | Society for Spritsail Barge Research | 0-9500515-1-9 | East coast barges Edith May Remercie |
| Below the Bridge | National Museum of Wales | National Museum of Wales | 0-7200-0288-5 | dock sociology trade paddlesteamer |
| Below the Timeball | Tolerton, Nick | 0-473-07462-1 | dock Hununui sail Esmeralda Pamir France navy HMNZN WW1 troopship dredge passenger | |
| Bembridge Redwings [The] | Swinstead, David | Cross | 1-873295-26-X | lines dinghy lugrig sloop Thornycroft racing |
| Ben Line | Somner, Graeme | Ships in Focus Publications | 978-1-901703-54-2 | company Ben Scotland fleet flag funnel Thomson |
| Ben Line [The] | Ben Line | Thomas Nelson | company merchant warloss WW2 convoy airarm Ben | |
| Ben Line [The] | Blake, George | Thomas Nelson | WW1 WW2 Baltic coal figurehead Japan apprentice Benvrackie sail steam fleet Thomson Leith | |
| Ben Line [The] | Strachan, Michael | Michael Russell | 0-85955-197-3 | company Thomson Leith Edinburgh Benan Bencleuch Moscow carrier Benawers Singapore |
| Ben Line Fleet List and Short History | Somner, Graeme | World Ship Society | company Ben Line Scotland fleet list shipbuilder | |
| Ben Line: Fleet List and Short History | Somner, Graeme | World Ship Society | 0-905617-11-8 | company Ben Line history fleet Bamburgh Shipping Ben Odeco Atlantic Scotland |
| Ben Line: Fleet List and Short History 1985 Supplement | Somner, Graeme | World Ship Society | company Ben Line fleet list Edinburgh Thomson tanker bulk semi-submersible | |
| Beneath the House Flag of the P and O | Padfield, Peter | Hutchinson | 0-09-145760 | company liner cruising P&O passenger sociology Suez |
| Beneath the Surface | Lightfoot, Bill | Cordillera Books | 1-895590-31-0 | submarine America Seattle Puget Sound WW1 Chile |
| Beneath the Waves | Evans, A S | William Kimber | 0-7183-0601-6 | submarines World War One WW1 World War Two WW2 escape systems |
| Benedict Arnolds Navy | Nelson, James L | McGraw Hill | 0-07-146806-4 | Lake Champlain Ticonderoga Montreal Quebec Valcour Island revolution USA |
| Benjamin Bowring and his Descendants | Wardle, Arthur C | Hodder and Stoughton | history family company lineage Newfoundland fleet Arctic sealhunting WW1 oil tankers | |
| Bentleys Complete Phrase Code | Bentleys | E L Bentley | signal | |
| Beowulf | Morpurgo, Michael | Walker Books | 978-1-4063-4887-3 | Beowulf Old English myth |
| Beowulf: A Verse Translation | Beowulf | Penguin | 0-140-44931-0 | poetry Beowulf Old English myth |
| Berengaria | Streater, Les | Tempus | 0-7524-2142-5 | Cunard Imperator transatlantic history Hamburg Amerika design launch radio communication migration touring crew |
| Bergen og Sjofarten 1 | Lorentzen, Bernt | Bergens Sjofartsmuseum | Norway Holbien | |
| Bergen og Sjofarten 2 | Thue, Johs B | Bergens Sjofartsmuseum | 82-7064-010-7 | Norway Ameln Providentia Bergitha Elsine Fortuna Tartar Enigheden Provestenen Ingeborg Bergenseren |
| Bergen og Sjofarten 3 | Pettersen, Lauritz | Bergens Sjofartsmuseum | 82-7064-012-3 | Terese Victoria Vikingen Nordlyset Elida Emil Cecilie Saga Sleipner Skjoldmoen Valkyrien Hildur Lina |
| Bergen og Sjofarten 4 | Thowsen, Atle | Bergens Sjofartsmuseum | 82-0764-015-8 | Norway tonnages Caloric Verdande Hansi Anna Torkildsen Jebsen Mathilda crew Samnanger Melderskin |
| Bergenske | Bakka, Dag Jr | Seagull | 82-91258-01-5 | deckplan Krohn paddlesteamer Jupiter harbour Sirius Capella Neptun Venus Hurtigruten Uranus Hera Olsen |
| Bergenske Fjordabater | Bergenske | Bergens tidende | 82-7131-007-0 | Bergen ferry steam fjord Norway |