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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Hornblower [The] | Perrett, Bryan | Arms and Armour Press | 978-1-78159-195-6 | RN Royal Navy Gordon Napoleonic warship |
| Real Little Seaport the Port of Aberdyfi and its People [A] Vol 1 | Lloyd, Lewis | Lewis Lloyd | 1-874786-48-8 | quarrying Merioneth Gwynedd railway archive Penhelig ferry Borth Machynlleth Dovey |
| Real Little Seaport the Port of Aberdyfi and its People [A] Vol 2 | Lloyd, Lewis | Lewis Lloyd | 1-874786-49-6 | mariners shipbuilders square rig lifeboat Tywyn ferry Morgan journal chronology |
| Real Magic 70 years of the Merlin Rocket | Henshall, David | Matador | 978-1784622-862 | |
| Real Navy [The] | Kenworthy, J M | Hutchinson | navy shipbuilding sociology Jutland | |
| Real Price of Fish [The] | Ritchie, George F | Hutton Press | 1-872167-19-5 | fishing shipwreck trawler warloss |
| Real Runabouts [The] | Speltz, Robert | Graphic | 0-89279-010-5 | speedboat motor Canada Europe restoration boatbuilding |
| Real Runabouts 2 [The] | Speltz, Robert | Graphic | 0-89279-017-2 | speedboat motor Canada Europe Lyman Higgins boatbuilder Dodge Ventnor Truscott Michigan |
| Real Runabouts 3 [The] | Speltz, Robert | Graphic | 0-89279-018-0 | speedboat motor Canada Europe US Aeolian Atlas Ludington Minnetonka Grebe-Hacker Ski |
| Real South Seas [The] | Bellamy, R Reynell | John Long | Pacific canoe | |
| Reardon Smith 1905-1980 | Heaton, P M | Reardon Smith company history fleet WW1 WW2 Leeds Shipping City | ||
| Reardon Smith Line The History of a South Wales Shipping Venture | Heaton, P M | Starling Press | 0-9507714-3-0 | company |
| Reasons in Writing | Southby Tailyour, Ewen | Leo Cooper | 0-85052-310-9 | Endurance Fearless Port William Bluff Cove Stanley San Carlos Canberra Hermes Sir Galahad Galtieri Ascension Island Argentina amphibious marines Falkland islands Ardent Goose Green Plymouth paras doldrums |
| Rebuilding of the Severn Trow Spry | Johnson, C S | Upper Severn Navigation Trust | 0-9526137-0-0 | |
| Recipes For the Colour Varnish Oil Soap Drysaltery Trades | Recipes | Scott Greenwood & Son | chemical wood paint oil formula | |
| Recollections From the Past British Coastal Life a Photographic Record | Lewis, Philippa | Parkgate Books | 1-85585-337-X | navy lifeboats lighthouse shipbuilding dock fishing liners pier promenades regatta carnival |
| Recollections of James Anthony Gardner | Recollections | Gardiner list autobiography Fairlight Hood Macredie officer navy RN journal crew | ||
| Recollections of My Sea Life | Boteler, John Harvey | Naval Records Society | navy Baltic Caribbean Medway Gibraltar Lisbon | |
| Recollections on the Life of Janner Snell of Falmouth 1888-1961 | Peters, Brian | Falmouth lifeboat biography | ||
| Reconquete d’un Patrimoine 1979-1992 [La] | Reconquete d’un Patrimoine | Federation regionale pour la Culture Maritime | restoration Douarnenez Brittany shipbuilding fishing gig museum | |
| Record Breakers of the North Atlantic | Kludas, Arnold | Koehlers | 1-86176-141-4 | liner passenger Atlantic White Star company paddle steamer |
| Record of Canadian Shipping | Record of Canadian | Hodder and Stoughton | Canada Nova Scotia Quebec Seaway register square rig PEI | |
| Record of War and Peace 1819-1946 [A] | Record of War | Siebe Gorman & Co | diving company | |
| Records | Fisher, Lord | Hodder & Stoughton | biography WW1 navy Fisher | |
| Records of Bristol Ships 1800-1838 | Records of Bristol | Bristol Record Society | registration tonnage | |
| Records of Merchant Shipping and Seamen | Smith, Kelvin | Public Record Office | 1-873-162-49-9 | genealogy pedigree medal records |
| Records of Merchant Shipping and Seamen | Smith, Kelvin | PRO Publications | 1-873-162-49-9 | seamen BoT Customs fishermen fishing disaster RN crew pensions census WW1 WW2 loss convoy RNR welfare |
| Records of the Early British Steamships | Records of the Early | Charles Birchell | ||
| Records of the Royal Air Force [The] | Wilson, Eunice | Federation of Family History Societies | 1-872094-17-1 | RAF Spitfire uniforms PoW Kew MOD USAFsources addresses records |
| Records of the Royal Marines | Thomas, Garth | PRO Publications | 1-873162-19-7 | records marine |
| Records of Traditional Watercraft from South and West Sri Lanka | Kapitan, Gerhard | Archaeopress | 978-1-4073-0413-7 | bamboo log rafts outriggers dinghies tenders oru fishing vallam double hull fishing double sprit rigging shore seining |
| Recovery of HMS Gorgon [The] | Key, Astley Cooper | Smith Elder and Co | salvage South America River Plate plan diagram HMS Gorgon | |
| Recreation and the Sea | Recreation and | University of Exeter Press | 0-85989-540-8 | |
| Red Bay Lifeboats | Leach, Nicholas | Foxglove Pub Ltd | 978-0956456045 | inflatable Atlantic crew Carnlough coastguard inshore harbour RNLI |
| Red Duster at War | Slader, John | Kimber | 0-7183-0679-1 | convoy WW2 D-Day warloss merchant U-boat medal troopship |
| Red Fleet and the Royal Navy [The] | Mitchell, Mairin | Hodder & Stoughton | Royal Navy USSR Red Fleet WW2 | |
| Red Funnel 150 | Adams, Keith | Richard Danielson | 978-0-9513155-5-2 | Ferry Cowes paddle steamer hydrofoil hover |
| Red Funnel and Before | Adams, R B | Kingfisher Railway Productions | 0-946184-21-6 | Red Funnel IoW ferry company paddlesteamer tug Solent |
| Red Funnel Line [The] | Anthony, Mary | Anthony | 0-9516985-0-8 | Oreston fares passengers Bovisand Cattedown Turnchapel Devon Plymouth |
| Red Funnel Stuff for 1938 | Leigh-Bennett, E P | Southampton IoW & S of England Roy Mail S P Co | IoW ferry Solent company Red Funnel paddlesteamer | |
| Red Gum and Paddlewheels: Australias Inland River Trade | Phillips, Peter J | Greenhouse | 909104-26-3 | paddle steamer Murray Darling stern wheelers wool fishing passenger timber |
| Red Mains’l | Pye, E A | The Travel Book Club | Cornwall Looe Atlantic Florida Caribbean Flores Bermuda Bahamas Barbados | |
| Red Star Line [The] | Finch, Vernon E W | De Branding | 90-72543-01-7 | company liner Falmouth RedStar |
| Red Star Rising at Sea | Gorshkov, Sergei G | US Naval Institute | 0-87021-244-9 | navy Russia WW1 WW2 warloss submarine |
| Redbrook a Deep-Sea Tramp [The] | Heaton, P M | Starling Press | 0-9507714-0-6 | company Wales tramp |
| Redden en Bergen | Burg, Ger van der | |||
| Redders Bergers Bouwers | Redders Bergers Bouwers | |||
| Rederiaktieselskabet Dannebrog 1883-1973 | Rederiaktieselskabet Dannebrog | World Ship Society | Denmark company list houseflag Dannebrog | |
| Rederij T Muller | Winde, Henk de | Pirola maritiem | 90-6455-146-4 | Company tugs Netherlands Holland |
| Rederij Van Ommeren Pt 1 | Lentjes, Arie |