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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queequegs Odyssey | Cultra, Quen | Chicago Review Press | 0-283-98453-8 | yacht cruising multihull solo Pacific Caribbean |
| Quest by Canoe: Glasgow to Skye | Dunnett, Alastair M | Travel Book Club | ||
| Quest for Frank Wild including his original memoirs [the] | Butler, Angie | Jackleberry Press | 978-0-9569272-0-0- | polar explorer memoirs Shackleton Scott Endurance |
| Quest for India [The] | Landstrom, Bjorn | Allen & Unwin | exploration Africa Egypt India Mediterranean Viking junk | |
| Quest for Speed at Sea [A] | Dawson, Christopher | Hutchinson | 0-09-109720-7 | shipbuilding MTB propellor turbine frigate barge torpedo |
| Quest of Simon Richardson [The] | Richardson, Dorothy | Victor Gollancz | 0-575-03853-5 | biography adventure mystery tug journal |
| Quest of the Schooner Argus [The] | Villiers, Alan | Hodder and Stoughton | Newfoundland Atlantic Canada dory Portugal radio shipwreck Silvio Ramalheira Gremio cod | |
| Questions and Answers on Electric Motors | Coker, A J | George Newnes | current motor torque voltage magnet polarity textbook | |
| Questions and Answers on the Marine Diesel Engine | Lamb, John | Charles Griffin | engineering diesel textbook | |
| Quetta [The] | Foley, John C H | Nairana Publications | 0-7316-8141-X | shipwreck Australia Torres Strait Queensland |
| Quiberon Bay | Marcus, Geoffrey | Hollis & Carter | Quiberon Anson blockade France | |
| Quiet Adventure [The] | Quiet Adventure | Charles Smith Publications | boatbuilding sail cruise fishing dinghy traditional racing inland canal river club British Small Boatbuilders Association | |
| Quiet Warrior [The] | Buell, Thomas B | Little Brown and Company | 0-87021-562-0 | RN WW2 World War Two admiral US Navy Pacific |
| R Lapthorn and Company Limited | Garrett, K S | Ships in Focus | 1-901-703-41-X | company Lapthorn |
| R N V R [The] | Kerr, J Lennox | George G Harrap | navy RNVR minesweeper submarine MTB FAA Fleet Air Arm Albacore pilot landing Lizard | |
| Ra Expeditions [The] | Heyerdahl, Thor | George Allen & Unwin | 0-04-572020-7 | exploration raft reed currents Caribbean sociology adventure |
| Race [The] | Hubbard, J T W | W W Norton | 0-393-03313-9 | yacht racing Atlantic solo humour |
| Race [The] | Orsenna, Erik | Solar | 2-263-03146-4 | yacht racing |
| Race Against the Odds | Desmond, Kevin | Sigma Leisure | 1-85058-806-6 | speedboat Cumbria Argentina US powerboat racing |
| Race Against Time | Bolton, David | Methuen | 0-7493-0994-6 | history waterway canal river restoration National Trust aqueduct Robert Aickman David Hutchings |
| Race Against time | Macarthur, Ellen | Michael Joseph/Penguin | 978-0-718-14740-2 | racing trimaran solo ocean Atlantic Falmouth Spain sailing |
| Race to the Cape | Hodson, Norman a story of the Union Castle Line 1857-1977 | Navigator Books | 0-902830-42-2 | passengers WW1 WW2 design cruising |
| Race to Win | Marshall, Roger | Adlard Coles/Granada | 0-229-11625-6 | racing design dinghy rig hydraulic sail deckplan electric |
| Race Under Sail | Hambly, Peter | Stanford Maritime | 0-540-07173-0 | square rig tall racing Chichester |
| Race Your Boat Right | Knapp, Arthur | Macmillan | yacht textbook seamanship | |
| Races for the Americas Cup | Burnell, R D | Macdonald | Americas Cup yacht racing US | |
| Racing | Racing | Time-Life Books | racing tactics engine rules laser aerodynamic dinghy | |
| Racing Cruising and Design | Fox, Uffa | Peter Davies | masting rigging construction lines plans sections yacht sail power boats J class one design | |
| Racing Dinghy Handling | Proctor, Ian | Adlard Coles | dinghy racing crew safety club steering maintenance inter14 | |
| Racing Dinghy Maintenance | Proctor, Ian | dinghy maintenance racing | ||
| Racing Dinghy Sails | Howard-Williams, Jeremy | Adlard Coles | 0-229-97495-3 | dinghy racing sails rigging |
| Racing Edge [The] | Turner, Ted | Rutledge Books Inc | 0-906781-03-5 | Tenacious Courageous tactics techniques match racing protests appeals clothing nutrition mental preparation |
| Racing Rules of Sailing 1997-2000 [The] | RYA | Royal Yachting Association | flags signals match racing team racing protests ISAF eligibility international juries | |
| Racing Rules of Sailing 2001 – 2004 [The] | RYA | RYA | Yacht Racing | |
| Racing Rules of the International Yacht Racing Union 1st Jan 1959 [The] | Racing Rules | RYA | management sailing infringments protests appeals | |
| Racing Sailormen | Cooper, F S | Percival Marshall | barge Thames | |
| Racing Schooner Westward [The] | Hamilton-Adams , C P | Stanford Maririme | 0-540-07155-2 | yacht racing lines Britannia schooner US deckplan |
| Racing Schooner Westward [The] | Hamilton-Adams, C P | Stanford Maritime | 0-540-07155-2 | yacht racing lines J Britannia schooner US deckplan |
| Racing Skipper | Aisher, Robin | Fernhurst Books | 0-906754-69-0 | preparation tactics night sailing |
| Racing Tactics | Curry, Manfred | G Bell & Sons Ltd/Scribner | wind weather rules racing | |
| Racing Through the Night | Sisson, Wade | Amberley Publishing | 978-1-4456-0026-0 | Titanic shipwreck steam passenger disaster |
| Racing With Cornelius Shields and the Masters | Shields, Cornelius | Prentice-Hall Inc | 0-13-750224-9 | yacht racing America |
| Racing Yachts [The] | Whipple, A B C | |||
| Racing Yachts and Dinghies | Bartlett, James | Macdonald | yacht dinghy racing catalogue flyingD star merlinR flyingF | |
| Racundras First Cruise | Ransome, Arthur | Jonathan Cape | yacht cruising ketch | |
| Racundras Third Cruise | Ransome, Arthur | Fernburst Books | 1-898660-89-1 | Dvina Riga cruising Baltic |
| Radar Afloat | Bartlett, Tim | Fernhurst Books | 1-898660-71-9 | radar navigation collision pilot weather collision maintenance compass |
| Radar and Electronic Navigation | Sonnenberg, G J | Butterworths | 0-408-01191-2 | navigation radar radio electronic textbook |
| Radar Observers Handbook | Burger, W | Brown Son & Ferguson | transmission reception range measurement controls echo detection coast pilot chart navigation iceberg equipment | |
| Radar Watchkeeping | Moss, W D | Maritime Press | navigation textbook radar |