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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Last Chance | Butler, Bill | Exmart Press, Miami | 0-9632519-2-9 | yacht cruising shipwreck survival Pacific inflatable whaling |
| Our Merchant Navy | Howard, Sidney | OUP | ||
| Our Navy | Our Navy | Ward, Lock & Co | WW2 navy RodneyHMS battleship submarine destroyer FAA Fleet Air Arm Norway | |
| Our Ocean Railways | Fraser-MacDonald, A | Chapman & Hall | exploration sail steam propellers Pacific Atlantic engineering engine | |
| Our River | Leslie, George D | Bradbury | Thames river boating regatta punt community custom wildlife | |
| Our Sea Coast Heroes | Daunt, Achilles | Thomas Nelson | Wreck rescue lifeboat construction buoyancy stability Dennett Carte Manby Very Ayrshire Parthia Duke of Sutherland Indian Chief Stanley ConstanceMazinthien Austria Devon Brissons Killarney Providentia Goodwin Sands Linda | |
| Our Seamarks | Edwards, E Price | Longmans Green | lighthouse lightship buoy fog signal beacon | |
| Our Seamen | Plimsoll, Samuel | Virtue & Co | 085937-1565 | model shipbuilding sailplan cargo Plimsoll insurance |
| Our Seamen | Plimsoll, Samuel | Virtue & Co | undermanning bad stowage deck-loading deficient engine-power over-insurance defective construction improper overloading want of repair disaster responsibility | |
| Our Silver Streak | Underhill, Arthur | Norie & Wilson | yacht pilot Channel Harwich IoS | |
| Our Wherry in Wendish Lands | Doughty, H M | 0-907069-38-X | ||
| Our World Tour 1922-1923 | Burdick, Joel W | Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside | 0-906367-42-5 | Cunard Laconia history cruising American Express Captain Brown Panama Hawaii |
| Out of Appledore | Slade, W J | Percival Marshall | Appledore shipyard shipowner WW1 WW2 schooner ketch barge smack biography | |
| Out of Aukland | Hawkins, Clifford W | Clifford Hawkins | New Zealand shipbuilding | |
| Out of Poole | Payne, G C L | John Murray | yacht Biscay Bermuda Atlantic | |
| Outboard Motor Handbook | Warren, Nigel | Stanford | 0-540-07152-8 | outboard textbook |
| Outboard Motor Manual [The] | Outboard Motor | Temple Press Books | servicing maintenance trailers waterskiing racing | |
| Outbound From Vancouver | Heal, S C | Cordillera Books | 978-1-895590-33-3 | Canada shipping cargo passenger Park export tramping Washington |
| Outer Hebrides Sailing Directions Part 4 | Outer Hebrides | Clyde Cruising Club | ||
| Outlaw Ocean [The] | Urbina, Ian | Bodley Head | 978-1-8479-2585-5 | Ocean adventure report crime smuggling drugs slavery |
| Outline History of Transatlantic Steam Navigation | Spratt, H P | HMSO | model liner Atlantic company engineer shipbuilding packet | |
| Outlook | White, G W | Kandy | 85309-020-3 | meteorology weather wind |
| Outrageous Yachts | Bobrow, Jill | Adlard Coles Nautical | 978-1-4081-2052-1 | yacht sail powerboat design |
| Outrigger Canoes of Bali and Madura Indonesia | Horridge, Adrian | Bishop Museum Press | 0-930897-20-X | Jukung dugout outrigger Kawinan Oton ceremony Haddon Hornell |
| Outward Bound Sailing Handbook | Balcombe, Martin | Ward Lock | 0-7063-7361-8 | certification safety buoyancy weather wind knots radio VHS |
| Ove Skou | Thorsoe, Soren | The World Ship Society | 0-905617-18-5 | history company shipowner WW2 fleet tanker bulk carrier vessels dimensions shipbuilder |
| Over a Century of Shipbuilding Achievements | Over A Century | Civil Engineering Publications | Bartram shipbuilder history shipyard shipowners suppliers constructrion equipment launch vessels | |
| Over Alle Hav | Lillegaard, Leif B | Atheneum | 82-7334-126-7 | Wilhelmsen personnel captains owners crews fleet |
| Over Eighty Years of Transatlantic Travel: Cunard Line 1840-1923 | Over Eighty Years | The Cunard Steam Ship Company | history transatlantic steamer sail mail dimensions specifications tonnage fleet | |
| Over Fjord og Fjell | Kolltveit, Bard | F Beyer A/S Bergen | Norway steam company | |
| Over Here | Gardiner, Juliet | Collins & Brown Ltd | 1-85585-019-2 | US GI army Yankee RAF Eagle London Luftwaffe Roosevelt USAAF racism |
| Over Lindjen | Kolltveit, Bard | Dreyers | 82-7165-006-8 | company Norwegian South-America Line SAL Norway Brazil Argentina |
| Over Seas | Gibson C D | Ensign Press | 0-9608996-6-9 | Spain China Pacific WW1 Atlantic Japan Australia Java submarines |
| Over the Sea to Skye | Over the Sea to Skye | Solway Dory | 0-9542401-0-3 | Lomand Clyde Rob Roy Iona Mull paddle steamer Hebrides Dixon Kemp |
| Overland Launch [The] | Hodges, C Walter | G Bell | 0-435-12187-1 | lifeboat rescue RNLI sociology Lynmouth Porlock |
| Owen Stanley R N | Lubbock, Adelaide | Heinemann | Arctic Australia RN surveyor artist RattlesnakeHMS | |
| Own a Steel Boat | Pratt, Mike | Hollis & Carter | 0-370-30157-9 | measurement tools weld construction plans design deckplan |
| Oxford Book of Sea Stories [The] | Oxford Book of Sea Stories | Oxford University Press | 0-19-282415-5 | anthology ocean sociology humour |
| Oxford Book of the Sea [The] | Oxford Book | Oxford University Press | 0-19-214197-X | anthology poetry |
| Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea [The] | Oxford Companion | Oxford University Press | 0-19-211553-7 | dictionary |
| Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea [The] | Oxford Companion | Oxford University Press | 0-19-211553-7 | encyclopedia biography |
| Oxford Dictionary of New Words [The] | Oxford Dictionary | Oxford University Press | 0-19-869170-X | etymology definition headword usage illustrative alphabetical icons symbols |
| Oxford Duden German Dictionary | German Dictionary | Oxford University Press | 0-19-860365-7 | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History [The] Vol 1 | Oxford Encyclopedia | Oxford University Press | 978-0-19-513075-1 | navigation history encyclopaedia |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History [The] Vol 2 | Oxford Encyclopedia | Oxford University Press | 987-0-19-513075-1 | navigation history encyclopaedia |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History [The] Vol 3 | Oxford Encyclopedia | Oxford University Press | 987-0-19-513075-1 | navigation history encyclopaedia |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History [The] Vol 4 | Oxford Encyclopedia | Oxford University Press | 978-0-19-513075-1 | navigation history encyclopaedia |
| Oxford English a Guide to the Language | Oxford English | Oxford University Press | 0-19-869202-1 | abbreviations slang words phrases proverbs writers literary terms scientific medical computer |
| Oxford English Reference Dictionary [The] | Oxford English Reference | Oxford University Press | 0-19-860046-1 | dictionary encyclopedia atlas chronology astronomy alphabet |
| Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy [The] | Oxford Illustrated History | Oxford University Press | 0-19-211675-4 | Royal Navy history vessel battle politics |