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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth of the Battleship | Beeler, John F | Chatham Publishing | 1-84067-5349 | sail battleship steam armament design construction materials finance international domestic politics economics Admiral naval |
| Birth of the Steamboat [The] | Spratt, H Philip | Charles Griffin | history inventors paddles screw Trevithick turbine Papin Jouffroy Fitch Rumsey Miller Fulton | |
| Biscay Harbours and Anchorages Vol 1 Brest to Lorient | Coles, K Adlard | Adlard Coles | yacht pilot directions Biscay France | |
| Biscay Harbours and Anchorages Vol 2 Lorient to La Rochelle | Coles, K Adlard | Adlard Coles | pilot directions Biscay | |
| Bishop Rock | Boyle, Martin | B & T Publications | 1-901043-05-3 | lighthouse Bishop Rock keepers shipwrecks loss construction Trinity House Royal Oak Romney Theodorick William Preston Niekerie Duroro Walker Douglass McConnochie Belinda Schiller Hercules Falkland |
| Bishop Rock Lighthouse | Stanbrook, Elisabeth | Twelveheads Press | 978-0-906294-69-7 | WW1 St Marys St Martins St Agnes Tresco Trinity WW2 |
| Bismarck Episode [The] | Grenfell, Russell | Faber and Faber | WW2 Bismark | |
| Bismark | Ballard, Robert | Haynes Publishing | 978-1-84425-667-9 | WW2 shipwreck artillery Atlantic Churchill survivors Lindemann Hood crew search biplane location battle |
| BISN Co Ltd Service Regulations 1887 | BISN Co Ltd | navigation seamanship mail coal stores officer engineer clerk steward uniform | ||
| Bisquine de Cancale et de Granville [La] | Bot, Jean le | Editions des 4-Seigneurs | 2-85231-063-5 | construction rigging sails fishing regattas La Perle |
| Bisquines [Les] | Boell, Denis-Michel | Chasse-Maree | 2-903-708-19-3 | fishing France lugger oyster museum La Houle lines rigging construction regatta reconstruction La Perle La Cancalaise |
| Bizarre Ships of the Nineteenth Century | Guthrie, John | Hutchinson Scientific and Technical | 09-100010-6 | shipbuilding submarine engine hull |
| Bla Skipene [De] | Lillegaard, Leif B | 82-990-770-01 | history sail steam ferry Norway Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab VDS | |
| Black Battlefleet [The] | Ballard, G A | Nautical Pub Co/Soc Nautical Research Greenwich | 0-245-53030-4 | warship NNM WW1 ironclad Malta corvette Mediterranean cruiser navy Victorian |
| Black Country Canals | Collins, Paul | Sutton Publishing | 0-7509-2031-9 | canal Midland |
| Black Diamond Fleets | Middlemiss, Norman L | Shield Publications | 1-871128-19-6 | company William Cory Stephenson Clarke France Fenwick Tantfield Sheepvaart & Steenkolen gas electricity Pelton Tyneside Witherington Everett Sharp Newbigin Marquis of Londonderry Connel & Grace Burnett Hudson Salvesen Henry McGregor |
| Black Diamond Line of Colliers [The] | Parsons, Ronald | Ronald H Parsons | 0-9599387-4-0 | Henry Simpson collier Australia |
| Black Diamond Line of Colliers [The] | Parsons, Ronald | Ronald H Parsons | 0-9599387-4-0 | company collier Diamond |
| Black Diamonds by Sea | Keys, Dick | Newcastle upon Tyne Libraries & Info Service | 1-85795-019-4 | collier coal Sally Annie Diamante Sarah Ann Susannah Thrift john Bowes William Hutt |
| Black Flag | Paterson, Lawrence | Seaforth Publishing | 978-1-84832-037-6 | WW2 submarines Donitz Norway France SteinhoffUS Kriegsmarine Emmermann |
| Black Night Off Finisterre | Hawkey, Arthur | Airlife | 1-84037-095-5 | CaptainHMS CowperColes turret |
| Black Sailed Traders | Clark, Roy | Putnam | Wherry Keel Norfolk Suffolk Southwold Blue Water Wherries | |
| Black Saturday | McKee, Alexander | Souvenir Press | WW2 battleship U-boat warloss | |
| Black Ship [The] | Pope, Dudley | Weidenfeld and Nicolson | mutiny Royal Navy West Indies | |
| Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast | Roberts, Nancy | John F Blair | 0-89587-098-3 | Teach Tew privateering North Carolina Bonnet Barbados |
| Blackpool Lifeboats | Morris, Jeff | Robert William Samuel Flether John Rowson Lingard Sarah Ann Austin Maria Noble Edgar George Orlando Eva child | ||
| Blackwall Frigates [The] | Lubbock, Basil | Brown Son & Ferguson | company East India passenger Methven Green Wigram Edinburgh Balcarres colliers Hotspur Alnwick | |
| Blackwater Men | Emmett, Arthur | Seax Books | 1-870112-17-2 | yacht Maldon fishing oysters dredging Norway minesweeper |
| Bland Gibraltar | Somner, Graeme | World Ship Society | 0-905617-16-9 | company history shipowner ship repair fleet steamer tug tender paddle screw Mediterranean |
| Blandy Family of Companies [The] | Blandy Family | Blandy | Madeira London Canary Lisbon Funchal wine Portugal coal Reids Tenerife Las Palmas | |
| Blasket Islands [The] | Stagles, Joan | O’Brien Press | 0-86278-071-3 | Ireland fishing harbour Dingle Atlantic |
| Blaydon Christmas Annual 1944 [The] | Blaydon Christmas | navy poetry magazine | ||
| Bless our ship | Hough, Richard | Hodder & Stoughton | 0-340-54396-5 | navy destroyer WW2 Mountbatten Mediterranean Norway warloss |
| Bligh | McKinney, Sam | International Marine Publishing Co | 0-87742-981-2 | Cape Horn Atlantic Pacific Indian Australia reef Timor Pitcairn chronology victuals Capetown |
| Bligh and the Bounty | Bligh, William | Bligh Bounty mutiny | ||
| Bligh Notebook [The] Vols 1 and 2 | Bligh, William | National Library of Australia | 0-642-99337-8 | Bligh Bounty mutiny mutineers plans lines navigation |
| Blighs Other Mutiny | Hawkey, Arthur | Purnell Book Services Ltd | Bligh Camperdown Copenhagen court martial Macarthur | |
| Blind Horns Hate [The] | Hough, Richard | Hutchinson | 0-09-104370-0 | Cape Horn Tierra Chile Argentina Magellan exploration |
| Blind Mans Bluff | Sontag, Sherry | Hutchinson | 0-09-180075-7 | USA Russia USSR cold war navy submarine espionage |
| Blitz the Attacks on Plymouth | Wasley, Gerald | Devon Books | 0-86114-868-1 | WW2 fire raid Luftwaffe Devonport defence Germany Cornwall dockyard Goering |
| Blizzard of ’91 [The] | Carter, Clive | David & Charles | 0-7153-5137-0 | Shipwrecks Flying Dutchman weather charts GWR LSWR trains railways ports harbours |
| Blockade | Carse, Robert | Rinehart | Corwin Giraffe Robert E Lee blockade American civil sea war paddle steamers | |
| Blockade Busters [The] | Barker, Ralph | Chatto & Windus | 0-7011-2198-0 | blockade WW2 Norway Sweden |
| Blockade Runners of the Confederacy | Cochran, Hamilton | Bobbs Merrill | US blockade Atlantic Caribbean cotton navy Bahamas | |
| Blockade Running During the Civil War | Bradlee, F B C | Essex Institute | 0-87991-328-2 | blockade USN railway US army |
| Blocking of Zeebrugge [The] | Carpenter, Alfred F B | Herbert Jenkins | Zeebrugge WW1 submarine | |
| Blohm and Voss | Prager, Hans Georg | Koehler | 0-904-609-14-6 | shipbuilding Germany Hamburg turbine diesel Ballin Neva dock gear passenger Europa Savarona shipyard Blom & Voss OEW |
| Blokes up North | Oliver, Kev | Lodestar Books | 978-1-907206-24-5 | Arctic North West Passage Norseboat sailing rowing |
| Blondie | Southby-Tailyour, Ewen | Leo Cooper/Pen and Sword | 0-85052-950-6 | Hasler cockleshell SBS ocean racing biography selfsteering |
| Blood on the Sea | McCormick, Donald | Frederick Muller Ltd | cannibalism dinghy chronometer quadrant trial Parker reef Australia Falmouth |