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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rise of Recreational Boat-sailing in S Devon from mid 19th C to 1914 | Bass, Timothy Philip | Devon Dancing Girl Myosotis Duet Foam Arrow Marharanee Vie Topsham | ||
| Rise of the English Shipping Industry [The] | Davis, Ralph | David & Charles | 0-7153-5462-0 | shipowner trade seamen East India Company Caribbean |
| Rise of the Fishing Industry in Humberside [The] | Sutherland, Ian | Local History Archives Unit | 1-870001-04-4 | fishing |
| Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931-1942 [The] Vol 3 | Morison, Samuel Eliot | Little, Brown and Co | Panay Pearl Japan Hakku Ichiu Philippines Guam Abda Balikpapan Octopus Java Asiatic Fleet Glassford Kimmel Lexington Stark submarine U-boat | |
| Risk to Gain | Chisnell, Mark | Max Strom | 91-7588-226-4 | yacht racing |
| Ritsons Branch Line | Cooper, Malcolm | World Ship Society | 0-905617-99-1 | Nautilus steam shipping company Sunderland South America design deck plan |
| Ritz’s Carlton Restaurant | Ritz’s | Hamburg American Line steamers fleet Atlantic liner history Kaiserin Auguste Victoria | ||
| River and John Frank [The] plus Reads Island | Day, Nicholas J | River and John Frank Enterprise | 0-9529594-0-3 | history Humber Ferriby Grimsby brickyard sloop WW1 WW2 |
| River Bank [The] | Ommanney, F D | Longmans Green | WW1 autobiography | |
| River Boat Days on the Murray Darling Murrumbidgee | Phillips, Peter | Lansdowne Press | 0-7018-0418-1 | Echuca Stern wheelers wool McCullochs snagging fishing passenger steamers Kookaburra disasters paddle logging cargo |
| River Boats | Mudie, Ian | Rigby Ltd Adelaide | ||
| River Camel [The] | Duxbury, Brenda | Bossiney Books | 0-948158-26-3 | River Camel Camelford Wadebridge St Enodoc Padstow Obby Oss Doom Bar lifeboat |
| River Colne Shipbuilders | Collins, John | Jardine Press | 978-0-9552035-8-9 | shipyard Essex Colchester Rowledge Wivenhoe Brightlingsea St Osyth |
| River Conwy Source to Sea [The] | Richards, Alun John | Cwasg Carreg Gwalch | 978-1-84527-288-3 | Wales history port castle Tudor lake church bridge wildlife railway |
| River Cruises from Chester | Sharp, Alan | Alan Sharp (Author) | Dee river cruise transport | |
| River Cruising in Europe | Ward, Douglas | Berlitz | 978-178-004-772-0 | inland waterways cruise barge Danube Rhein Elbe Rhone Seine Po Douro |
| River Dart Pilotage | Griffiths, Dave | Dartmouth History Research Group | 1-899011-07-2 | Dartmouth Totnes pilot cutters |
| River Fal [The] | Wilson, D G | PIXZ Books | 978-0-85710-112-9 | mining tin clay mills Grampound Tregony Nansaker Ruan Lanihorne Fal Tolverne |
| River Ferries | Martin, Nancy | |||
| River Fowey [The] | MacArthur, Wilson | Cassell | Fowey Cornwall | |
| River Hamble [The] | Chun, David | Phillimore & Co | 978-0-7509-9966-6 | Bishop’s river Bishop’s Waltham Botley Bursledon river fishing ironworking brick works saltmaking shipbuilding archaeology |
| River in Retrospect [A] | Boot, Paul | Priam | 0-9521133-1-7 | Cunard Anchor Clan Union-Castle City Ellerman Blue Funnel Pacific Steam Navigation line shipyard steamship container liner history fleets Salvesen shipbuilder |
| River is Within Us [The] | Chitty, Jean | Belhaven | 0-9505869-1-9 | Hampshire IoW Solent WW1 WW2 boatbuilding navigation ferry |
| River Journeys | River Journeys | British Broadcasting Corporation | 0-563-20204-1 | Congo Sepik Waghi Mekong Sao Francisco Murray Nile |
| River Medway and the Swale | Simper, Robert | Creekside Publishing | 09519927-7-5 | |
| River Orwell and the River Stour [The] | Simper, Robert | Creekside Publishing | 0-9519927-1-6 | |
| River Thames Case Study | Dickens, W J | Thames Water | flooding management legislation population topography | |
| River to Cross [A] | Stranack, David | Dartmouth History Research Group | 1-899011-21-8 | |
| River Trent Navigation [The] | River Trent Navigation | Tempus | 0-7524-1743-6 | Trent barge tug |
| River-class Frigates and the Battle of the Atlantic | Lavery, Brian | National Maritime Museum | 978-0-948065-73-6 | RN WW2 weapons training convoys anti-submarine guns hedgehog minesweeping Asdic radar |
| Rivermen [The] | O’Neil, Paul | Time-Life Books | Mackinaws Dakota Montana passengers sidewheeler fur ice trapper indians beaver sternwheeler | |
| Rivers | Russell, Ronald | David & Charles | 0-7153-7473-7 | canal river lock wildlife |
| Rivers Alde Ore and Blyth | Simper, Robert | Creekside Publishing | 0-9519927-3-2 | east coast river |
| Rivers and Creeks of the Thames Estuary Vol 1 | Irving, John | O M Watts | ||
| Rivers to the Fens | Simper, Robert | Creekside Publishing | 0-953806-0-9 | |
| Rix Shipping | Atkinson, Graham | Ships in Focus Publications | 978-1-901703-59-7 | Rix history flag funnel fleet Hepworth shipyard |
| RMS Berengaria | RMS Berengaria | Cunard Steam Ship Co | Cunard liner interior | |
| RMS Lusitania | Sauder, Eric | Waterfront Publications | 0-946184-80-1 | history WW1 launch shipyard Blue Riband Cunard John Brown design accommodation survivors |
| RMS Lusitania Record of Passengers and Crew | RMS Lusitania | survivors nationality engineering stewards orchestra first second third class identities missing list Captain Turner Cunard steamship sinking loss | ||
| RMS Olympic | Hawley, Brian | Amberley | 978-1-4456-0093-2 | White Star deck plan section passenger liner Olympic |
| RMS Olympic | Mills, Simon | Waterfront Publications | 0-946184-79-8 | White Star company Harland & Wolff crane shipbuilding Solent |
| RMS Queen Elizabeth | Harvey, Clive | Carmania Press | 978-0-9543666-8-1 | liners Cunard John Brown Clydebank construction North Atlantic voyage damage |
| RMS Queen Elizabeth | Hutchings, David F | Kingfisher Publications | 0-946184-55-0 | Clyde Cunard shipbuilding propellor crane liner passenger |
| RMS Queen Elizabeth | McCutcheon, Janette | Amberley | 978-1-4456-3804-1 | Cunard passenger interior Queen Eliozabeth construction history |
| RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 of 1969 | Miller, W H | Edicoes e Iniciativas Nauticas, Lda | 972-8536-01-1 | cruise liners Cunard Adventurer Cunard Ambassador Cunard Princess Cunard Princess Sagafjord QE2 Caronia Aquitania Laconia Mauretania |
| RMS Queen Elizabeth The Beautiful Lady | McCutcheon, Janette | Tempus | 0-7524-2356-8 | Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary liner voyage Cunard John Brown shipbuilder |
| RMS Queen Mary | Ellery, David | Waterfront Publications | 0-946184-84-4 | liner company Cunard shipbuilding interior deckplan |
| RMS Queen Mary the factual story of a great ship | RMS Queen Mary | R M S Foundation Inc | 0-940188-31-7 | Cunard Long Beach |
| RMS Queen Mary: 50 Years of Splendour | Hutchings, David F | Kingfisher Railway Productions | 0-946184-23-2 | Cunard passenger liner Queen Mary construction crew accommodation voyage |
| RMS Titanic | Hutchings, David F | Kingfisher Railway Productions | 0-946184-29-1 | shipwreck Titanic RMS |