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.
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| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RMS Titanic 1909-1912 Olympic Class | Hutchings, David F | Haynes | 978-1-84425-662-4 | Harland & Wolff shipbuilding construction design engine lifeboat Titanic boiler communcation crew engine accommodation passenger propulsion hull |
| RMSP/RML Scrapbook | RMSP/RML Scrapbook | company packet West Indies | ||
| RN Cruisers in Focus | Warlow, Ben | Maritime Books | 0-90777196-3 | dazzle cruiser turret destroyer flotilla SwanH WW2 Crete |
| RN Destroyers in Focus Since 1945 | Warlow, Ben | Maritime Books | 0-907771-75-0 | destroyer navy missile helicopter |
| RN Frigates in Focus | Warlow, Ben | Maritime Books | 1-904459-03-X | WW2 training radar dazzle engine turbine Atlantic corvette |
| RN Minor War Vessels in Focus | Warlow, Ben | Maritime Books | 0-907771-81-5 | warships MTB |
| RNAS Culdrose | London, Peter | Sutton Publishing | 0-7509-2230-3 | Culdrose RNAS Fleet Air Arm FAA navy RN aircraft helicopter |
| RNAS Culdrose 1947-2007 | Wakeham, Geoff | Tempus Publishing | 978-0-7524-4381-2 | Fleet Air Arm FAA RN navy aircraft helicopter RNAS rescue Falklands |
| RNLI Gold Medal Rescues | Wake-Walker, Edward | David & Charles | 0-7153-9900-4 | lifeboat RNLI medal award |
| RNLI Lifeboat Lyme Regis | RNLI Lifeboat Lyme Regis | Lyme Regis Guild of the RNLI | 0-9519803-0-0 | lifeboat rescue RNLI Lyme Regis coastguard SAR Search and Rescue |
| RNLI Motor Lifeboats | Leach, Nicholas | Landmark Publishing Ltd | 1-84306-201-1 | RNLI lifeboat motor diesel inshore deckplan inflatable |
| RNLI Penlee | Corin, John | Penlee & Penzance Branch RNLI | RNLI lifeboat Cornwall Penzance shipwreck rescue Penlee | |
| RNLI Yearbook 1970 | RNLI Yearbook | RNLI | medals lifeboats inshore rescue Longhope Lyme Regis Solent Rosslare Selsey Oakley | |
| RNYC Sailing Directions | RNYC | Royal Northumberland Yacht Club | 0-9515997-0-4 | pilot east coast Hull Whitby Tyne |
| Ro Ro to Finland | Mitchell, Barry | Hutton Press | 0-907033-32-6 | Baltic cargo ports shipyard North sea vessel Baltic Enterprise Hull history Scandinavia crew |
| Road to Russia [The] | Edwards, Bernard | Leo Cooper | 0-85052-898-4 | U-boat Z-boat navy Churchill German WW2 submarine destroyer |
| Road to the Sea | Bradfield, S E | Temple Press | yacht cruising Australia dhow Mediterranean shipbuilding | |
| Road Transport before the Railways | Gerhold, Dorian | Cambridge University Press | 0-521-41950-6 | history waggons routes trade carriage passenger army navy supplies Great Westerm Thomas Russell John Woolcott |
| Roamer Round the World | Burns, Bob | Roamer Books | 978-0-9565241-0-2 | Cornwall schooner voyage Wadebridge Australia equipment Falklands |
| Roars Circle | Juel, Henrik | 978-07188-3045-8 | Construction reconstruction axes tools techniques Thorberg Skawhewer rigging sailing | |
| Rob Kattenburg | Rob Kattenburg | Rob Kattenburg | art Dutch catalogue | |
| Rob M Sloman Jr | Hieke, Ernst | Hanseatischer Merkur | Company history Hamburg sail steam motor West Africa North America South America Australia Mediterranean passenger liners | |
| Rob Roy on the Baltic [The] | MacGregor, John | Sampson Low Son & Marston | canoe Hebrew Holy Land voyage exploration adventure | |
| Rob Roy on the Jordan [The] | MacGregor, John | John Murray | canoe Hebrew Holy Land voyage exploration adventure | |
| Rob Roy on the Jordan [The] | MacGregor, John | John Murray | canoe Hebrew Holy Land | |
| Robert Blake General-at-Sea | Powell, J R | Collins | 0-00-211726-6 | RN Civil War Dutch War Tenerife Lyme Taunton Rupert Mediterranean Amphibious |
| Robert Clift of Bodmin Able Seaman 1790-1799 | Austin, Frances | Meldon House | 0-9508531-1-9 | Career biography family Hunterian Museum |
| Robert Jones | Pery, Jenny | Halsgrove | 1-874448-17-5 | |
| Robert Whytes 1847 Famine Ship Diary | Whyte, Robert | Mercier Press | 1-85635-091-6 | Canada Ireland Dublin Atlantic journal migration quarantine |
| Rochdale [The] | Greenwood, Michael T | Michael T Grenwood | canal barge inland waterways | |
| Rochdale Canal [The] | Rochdale Canal | canal Rochdale Bridgewater | ||
| Rochester Sailing Barges of the Victorian Era | Childs, Bob | Bob Childs | ||
| Rock Lighthouses of Britain | Nicholson, Christopher | Patrick Stephens | 1-904445-27-6 | Winstanley Eddystone Skerries Smalls Longships Longstone Bell Rock Skerryvore Bishop Rock Muckle Flugga Wolf Rock Dubh Artach Chicken Rock Flannan Isles Rockall Walker Trinity Stevenson relief keeper Plymouth light lantern |
| Rock Lighthouses of Britain | Nicholson, Christopher | Patrick Stephens | 0-85059-655-6 | Winstanley Eddystone Skerries Smalls Longships Longstone Bell Rock Skerryvore Bishop Rock Muckle Flugga Wolf Rock Dubh Artach Chicken Rock Flannan Isles Rockall Walker Trinity Stevenson relief keeper Plymouth light lantern |
| Rocking the Boat | McLean, Gavin | Hazard Press | 1-877270-40-7 | company Scales |
| Rodney | Spinney, David | George Allen and Unwin | 04-920022-4 | biography navy Rodney tactics Saints pedigree |
| Rodney Papers [The] Vol 2 1763-1780 | Rodney Papers | Ashgate | 978-0-7546-6007-1 | navy RN correspondence history Rodney Gibraltar West Indies provisions Montagu New York |
| Roemruchte Jaren van Onze Vloot | Scheffer, Age | Het Wereldvenster | Ruyter Chatham Dutch tactics | |
| Role of Cultural Institutions in the Regeneration of Cornwall [The] | Caldwell, Nicola | University of Southampton | Cornwall museum | |
| Roll on My Twelve | Bolster, David | Sylvan Press | navy | |
| Rolling Round the Horn | Muncaster, Claude | Rich & Cowan | travel Cape Horn square rig barque rigging sociology | |
| Rolling World [The] | Hallet, Richard | Eyre and Spottiswoode | travel adventure windjammer | |
| Rolls-Royce Conversion Tables | Rolls Royce | Rolls-Royce | metric imperial | |
| Roman Britain and the Roman Navy | Mason, David J P | Tempus | 0-7524-2541-2 | fleet shipbuilding Caesar trieme bireme conquest invasion Britannica pirates |
| Roman Ship from Blackfriars [A] | Marsden, P V R | Guildhall Museum | archaeology lines timber | |
| Roman Shipping and Trade Britain and the Rhine Provinces | Roman Shipping | Council for British Archaeology | 0-900312-62-9 | historical vessels cargo art barge shippers harbours routes tools |
| Romance of a Modern Liner [The] | Diggle, E G | Sampson Low | Aquitania passenger liner voyage engineer navigation communications crew cargo | |
| Romance of Boston Bay [The] | Snow, Edward Rowe | Yankee Publishing | Boston lighthouse clipper Salem beacon ice | |
| Romance of Buried Treasure [The] | Bridges, T C | Nisbet & Co | Bolivia Tobermory Rooke Prodgers Oxley Jesuits Cuba Boston Admiralty Ampuera Campbell | |
| Romance of Fish Life, The | Hunter, W A | A & C Black Ltd | fish |