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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Review of Maritime Transport 1995 | Review of Maritime Transport | United Nations | 92-1-112403-4 | UN economics register cargo shipowner |
| Review of Oy Finnlines Ltds Activities 1947-1967 [A] | Review | history shipbuilding Merivienti Oy steamship bulk carrier passenger car ferry routes Hansa Express shipbuilder fleet | ||
| Review of the Fleet by His Majesty the King. July 31, 1909 | Review | Royal Navy Fleet review Destroyers submarines dreadnoughts destroyers | ||
| Rex | Eliseo, Maurizio | Ermanno Albertelli Editore | 88-85909-35-3 | history liner shipowner WW2 Italy steam route shipbuilder shipyard transatlantic Lloyd Sabaudo launch Blue Riband |
| Rhodes’s Directory of Passenger Steamers 1911 | Rhodes’s | George Philip & Son | passenger steamer company fleet directory | |
| Rhodes’s Directory of Passenger Steamers 1913 | Rhodes’s | George Philip & Son | passenger steamer company fleet directory | |
| Rhodes’s Steamship Guide 1898/9 | Rhodes’s | George Philip & Son | passenger steamer company fleet directory flag funnel engineering | |
| Rhodes’s Steamship Guide 1907/8 | Rhodes’s | George Philip & Son | passenger steamer company directory route | |
| Ribbons and Medals | Dorling, H Taprell | George Philip & Son | British Egypt France Poland Czechoslovakia Russia Belgium Japan Rumania US Greece Iraq Portugal Finland Norway | |
| Rich Men Poor Men: Ryersons on the Titanic | Ryerse, Phyllis | Amberley | 978-1-4456-1013-9 | Titanic biography passengers crew shipwreck loss Ryerson |
| Richard Dunston Ltd of Thorne and Hessle Yorkshire Shipbuilders | Taylor, Mike | Wharncliffe Local History | 1-845630-94-7 | shipyard Lincolshire barge Irrawaddy Siene tug canal keel Doncaster carvel grain Sheffield |
| Richard Thomas Pentreath 1806-1869 A Cornish Artist | Richard Thomas Pentreath | Pentreath Family | PentreathArt Penzance Penlee Cornwall Newlyn barge Europe | |
| Richard Trevithick Giant of Steam | Burton, Anthony | Aurum Press | 1-85410-878-6 | Cornwall steam engine mining iron Watt Boulton |
| Richardsons of Napier | McLean, Gavin | New Zealand Ship & Marine Society | 0-9597834-2-3 | Oamaru Otago Weka Toroa Ripple Squall Wellington Putiki Parera fleet list Auckland Kopara |
| Richardsons of Napier | Waters, S D | Richardson & Co Ltd | New Zealand Europe Pakura Kopara Port Ahuriri Wairoa Port Elliot railway Wellington | |
| Richborough Port | Butler, Robert | Ramsgate Maritime Museum | ||
| Riches from Wrecks | Hinds, Fergus | Brown Son & Ferguson | 0-85174-623-3 | salvage treasure gold |
| Richest Village in England [The] | Cherry, Peter | K T Publications | 0-9539046-5-2 | Suffolk sail fishing steam herring coal weather drifter Pepys Lowestoft |
| Rickmers 1834-1959 | Rickmers | history shipowner shipbuilder barque sail steam motor barge trawler tug lighter WW1 shipyard shipowner tonnage navy WW2 cargo | ||
| Rickmers at 175 | Rickmers | Hoffmann und Campe | 978-3-455-50111-7 | history shipping company shipbuilder shipyard family WW1 WW2 routes fleet sail steam tallship cargo container bulk |
| Riddle [The] | Drummond, Maldwin | Nautical | 0-85177-342-7 | yacht cruising fiction |
| Riddle of the Titanic | Gardiner, Robin | Weidenfeld and Nicolson | 0-297-81528-8 | TitanicRMS mystery passenger list ice White Star |
| Rideau [The] | Fryer, Mary B | |||
| Riders of the storm | Cameron, Ian | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 0-297-60790-1 | RNLI lifeboat shipwreck rescue medal helicopter Beaufort WW1 WW2 Hillary Penzance Cornwall |
| Rig [The] | Dawson, Christopher | George Newnes Ltd | rigging maintenance boat dictionary | |
| Rig of the Day 1805-1955 | Cobb, David | Bernards of Harwich | uniform navy sociology company | |
| Rigger’s Guide [The] | Bushell, Charles | Griffin & Co | rigging guide knots sail mast | |
| Rigging | Calahan, H A | Macmillan Co | wire cordage standing running stays rope splicing shrouds halliards | |
| Rigging | Sala, Enrico | Adlard Coles | 0-229-11817-8 | seamanship yacht rigging rope |
| Rigging Handbook [The] | Toss, Brion | Adlard Coles | 0-7136-4817-1 | rigging rope splicing spar |
| Rigging maintenance & inspection of aircraft [The] | Speller, W J C | Pitman | faults timber metals control brakes wheel seaplane flying safety | |
| Rigging of Ships [The] | Anderson, R C | Marine Research Society | model rigging square rig sailplan | |
| Right Way Up | Right Way Up | RNLI | ||
| Rights of passage | Woolcock, Helen R | Tavistock Publications | 0-422-60240-x | sociology trade migration Australia |
| Rigid Inflatable Boats | Jones, Colin | |||
| Rigs and Rigging of Yachts | Phillips-Birt, Douglas | Adlard Coles | yacht rigging spar sailplan | |
| Rijksvaartuigen | Meylof, Louis | 90-366-0251-3 | ||
| Rijn-En Binnenvaart in Beeld: Nederland-Belgie-Frankrijk 1935-65 | Groot, Harry de | 90-6013-954-2 | ||
| Rijn-En Binnenvaart in Beeld: Nederland-Duitsland 1935-65 | Groot, Harry de | 90-6013-955-0 | ||
| Rijnsleepvaart: van Basel naar Rotterdam – Toen en Nu | Geer, Martin van de | De Alk | 90-6013-952-6 | tugs towage barges steam paddle diesel motor freight company |
| Rime of the Ancient Mariner [The] | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | 1-897654-74 | poetry Cornwall literature | |
| Ring-Net Fishermen [The] | Martin, Angus | John Donald | 0-85976-064-2 | fishing Scotland ringnet port net Skye Hebrides zulu |
| Ripple [The] | Ripple | regattas duty rota pilot cutters Falmouth Medley moth Beccles Bordeaux | ||
| Ripples in Time: Collection of NYK History June 1993-May 2003 | Ripples | NYK Line | NYK Nippon Yusen Kaisha company | |
| Risdon Beazley | Martin, Roy | Martin & Craigie-Halkett | 978-0-9557441-0-5 | salvage Great BritainSS |
| Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery [The] | Kennedy, Paul M | Allen Lane | 0-7139-0593-X | RN historyStuart Dutch France Britannica Mahan Mackinder U-boat Japan WW1 WW2 Germany |
| Rise and Fall of British Shipbuilding [The] | Burton, Anthony | Constable | 0-09-472920-4 | shipbuilding anchor Titanic women Clyde |
| Rise and Fall of the Aircraft Carrier [The] | Ireland, Bernard | Chartwell Books | 0-85685-711-4 | WW1 WW2 Furious torpedo bomber Pearl Harbor Ceylon Woolworth convoy Midway Coral nuclear |
| Rise and Progress of the City Line | Smith, John | City Line company shipowner history freight trade sails steam Egypt Suez captain | ||
| Rise and Rise of Road Transport 1700-1990 [The] | Barker, Theo | Macmillan Press | 0-521-55773-9 |