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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romance of Industry [A] | Romance | history ship repair dockyard WW1 shipbuilding Smiths Dock North Shields South Shields South Bank on Tees Newcastle | ||
| Romance of Lighthouses and Lifeboats | Corbin, Thomas | Seeley Service & Co | lighthouse lifeboat Trinity fog signal | |
| Romance of Londons River [The] | Jones, James A | Hutchinson & Co | Thames trade CornwallHMS training bawley smuggling bridge | |
| Romance of Navigation [The] | Whall, W B | Sampson Low, Marston | shipwreck exploration windjammer pirate East India Company Drake | |
| Romance of Sail [The] | Leitch, Michael | Hamlyn | 0-600-37576-5 | Egypt Greece Roman armada knot Columbus Viking Carrack |
| Romance of Tall Ships {The] | Eastland, Jonathan | Apple Press | 1-85076-243-0 | history clipper rigging brigantine wreck barque square rig Tall Ships race shipyard shipowner shiprepair wingsail windjammer route schooner decoration training |
| Romance of the Clipper Ships [The] | Lubbock, Basil | Hennel Locke | sail clipper tea Cutty Sark passenger trade migration Mason | |
| Romance of the Clipper Ships [The] | Lubbock, Basil | Hennel Locke | square rig art Cutty Sark clipper Blackwall Spurling | |
| Romance of the Clipper Ships [The] Vol 1 | Lubbock, Basil | Blue Peter | art square-rig clipper Blackwall sail ship Spurling | |
| Romance of the Edina [The] | Gregory, Dickson C | Robertson and Mullens | steam screw Australia launch trade skipper New Zealand shipowner | |
| Romance of the Merchant Ship [The] | Hawks, Ellison | George G Harrap | merchant navy shipbuilding East India Company liner engine tanker | |
| Romance of the Merchant Venturers [The] | Romance of the Merchant | Humphrey Milford OUP | Hawkins Brazil Willoughby Towerson Guinia Jenkinson Russia Fenner Japan Mexico Frobisher Newfoundland | |
| Romance of the Ship [The] | Chatterton, E Keble | Seeley Service & Co | Nile Mediterranean Egypt Trireme Viking Santa Maria galleon RodneyHMS sail steam Miller Desblanc NorthumberlandHMS Blake Terra Nova Dreadnought SuperbHMS minelaying submarine | |
| Romance of the Submarine [The] | Jackson, G Gibbard | Sampson, Low, Marston | navy submarine | |
| Romance of the Worlds Fisheries [The] | Wright, Sidney | Seeley & Co | tools trawling mussel fishing salmon cod oyster herring crab | |
| Romance of Water [The] | Wendt, Herbert | Librairie Hachette | weather tide fishing Panama canal Beagle current ocean oil | |
| Romantic Challenge [The] | Chichester, Francis | Cassell | 0-304-93869-6 | yacht racing Chichester victualling solo Atlantic |
| Romanzo Della Vela Vol 2 | Gropallo, Tomaso | |||
| Rommel | Young, Desmond | Collins | German WW2 army biography | |
| Ron Master Mariner at the Helm Across Seven Seas | Hubbard, L Ron | Bridge Publications | 978-1-4031-9884-6 | merchant navy US WW2 scientology Caribbean buccaneer Alaska Puget Seattle |
| Rond de piersen van Ijmuiden | Burg, Ger van der | Pirola Maritiem | 90-6455-137-5 | wreck rescue salvage fire collision Ijmuiden Netherlands |
| Ronde en platbodem jachten | Huitema, T | P N van Kampen | line plan section | |
| Ronde en Platbodem Schepen | Lunenburg, Jan | De Alk | Dutch yacht praam schokker pluut botter staversejol tjotter Netherlands | |
| Ronde en Platbodems | Lunenburg, Jan | De Alk | ||
| Roots and Stars | Vyvyan, C C | Peter Owen | biography travel sociology | |
| Ropa Plynie Przez Oceany | Piwowonski, Jan | Wydawnictwo Morskie | tanker trade oil | |
| Rope Net and Twine The Bridport Textile Industry | Sims, Richard | Dovecote Press | 978-1-904-34972-3 | flax hemp fishing lines nets Bridport Gundry Pymore Mill |
| Rope Splicing | Blandford, P W | Brown Son & Ferguson | rope splicing | |
| Rope Twine and Net Making | Sanctuary, Anthony | Shire | 0-85263-502-8 | rope net |
| Rope Yarns Marline Spikes and Tar | Dexter, W E | William Hodge and Company | Cape Horn Arctic Roaring Forties fishing | |
| Ropner Shipping Company 1874-1974 | Gray, Leonard | World Ship Society | history company fleet Appleby Ropner shipyard route WW1 shipbuilder | |
| Ropner Shipping Company 1874-1974 | Gray, Leonard | World Ship Society | company Ropner list | |
| Ropner Story [The] | Dear, Ian | Hutchinson Benham | 0-09-163810-0 | company shipowner fleet WW1 WW2 trade |
| Ro-Ro Safety | Ro-Ro Safety | Marine Directorate Dept of Transport | safety research collison model stability passenger ferry | |
| Rosebud and the Newlyn Clearances [The] | Sagar-Fenton, Michael | Truran | 1-85022-183-9 | Newlyn Cornwall London fishing list register Penzance |
| Roses and Castles | Wilson, Robert J | Robert Wilson | canal barge | |
| Rosie Darling | Swale, Rosie | Pelham | 0-7207-0726-9 | yacht cruising adventure catamaran Cape Horn |
| Rosslare Harbour Past and Present | Maddock, John | Harbour Publications | Ireland Wexford GWR Fishguard railway Cork WW1 WW2 ferry Innisfallen lighthouse | |
| Rosslare Harbour Sea and Ships | Maddock, John | Harbour Publications | 0-9528292-0-7 | lighthouse Tuskar Wexford Wales mail shipwrecks migration Pomona Cunard liner Bristol Liverpool |
| Rostocks Eiserne Segler | Rabbel, Jurgen | Hinstorff | 3-356-00006-3 | |
| Rotterdam Europoort Delta | Rotterdam Europoort | Port of Rotterdam | coal aerial installation elevator crane petrol quay dock | |
| Rotterdam Europoort Vol 1 | Mast, Geert K | Lanasta | 978-90-8616-026-3 | tankers pilot tugs escort flag weather towing oil dock crane |
| Rotterdam Europoort Vol 2 | Mast, Geert K | Lanasta | 978-90-8616-046-4 | tanker bulk carrier heavy lift offshore construction flag crude ore oil agribulk |
| Rotterdam Europort 1969 | Rotterdam | Stichting Havenbelangen | history port liner cargo harbour construction Botlek container crane warehouse ro-ro canal refinery berth pipeline ferry | |
| Rotterdam Harbour Radar Chain | Rotterdam | radar Netherlands WW2 oil dock pilot electronic transmitter radio | ||
| Rotterdam the Gateway to Europe | Rotterdam | A D Donker | history port Netherlands commerce export harbour trade steamship tunnel WW2 ship company shipbuilding drydock tug fleet cargo | |
| Rotterdamsche Lloyd | Scholten, B W | De Boer Maritiem | 90-269-4497-7 | Company history passenger freight KoninklijkeRotterdamsche Lloyd Stoomvaart Maatschappij Triton Stoomvaart Maatschappij Rotterdam Nedlloyd |
| Rot-Weiss-Rot auf Blauen Wellen: 150 jahre DDSG | Binder, Johannes | Germany company Rhine | ||
| Rough and Tumble | Roberts, Bob | Sampson Low, Marston | 0-904623-96-3 | yacht cruising Atlantic Panama Pacific |
| Rough Passage | Graham, R D | William Blackwood | yacht cruising Atlantic Bermuda solo |