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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ships of the Blue Funnel Line | Ships of the Blue Funnel | Shipping Today & Yesterday | Yangtsze Tydeus Stentor Rhexenor Prometheus Perseus Bellerophon Argo Automedon | |
| Ships of the British Merchant Navy | Talbot-Booth, E C | Andrew Melrose Ltd | Leyland Henderson British & Burmese Federal Atlantic Transport Natal Aberdeen & Commonwealth Royal Mail Steam Packet Canadian Pacific British India Booth Nelson Cunard Ellerman City Shaw Savill & Albion Elder African Pacific Ellerman & Bucknall P&O | |
| Ships of the British Merchant Navy of 1932 and After | Streater, Les | Maritime Publishing Concepts | Union-Castle Ellerman Hall White Star Oceanic Elder Dempster British & African New Zealand Shipping Blue Funnel Alfred Holt Anchor-Donaldson Henderson Union Steam Bibby Elders & Fyffes Aberdeen George Thompson Orient Jamaica Direct Fruit Kaye Red Star | |
| Ships of the Chester River | Martin, Richard | Bridge Books | 978-1-84494-116-2 | shipbuilding wood steam sail shipbuilder tonnage dock quay port ferry tide coast mining shiprepair shipyard |
| Ships of the Clyde | Fleming H M Le | Adlard Coles | Liner tanker funnel tug dock chart | |
| Ships of the Cunard Line | Dodman, Frank E | Adlard Coles | White Star paddle steamers screw turbine war losses fleet Blue Riband | |
| Ships of the East India Company | Hackman, Rowan | World Ship Society | 0-905617-96-7 | company East India Company |
| Ships of the Esso Fleet in World War 2 | Ships of the Esso | Standard Oil Company | Esso tanker WW2 Panama crew torpedo carrier Netherlands | |
| Ships of the German Fleets 1848-1945 [The] | Hansen, Hans Jurgen | Gerhard Stalling | 0-600-38153-6 | Reich Prussian Austrian Imperial navy Wilhelm Kriegsmarine art Bremerhaven corvette Deutschland |
| Ships of the Great Lakes on Postcards, Vol 1 | Welnetz, Bob | Great Lakes postcard submarine shipbuilding | ||
| Ships of the Great Lakes on Postcards, Vol 2 | Welnetz, Bob | Great Lakes postcard | ||
| Ships of the Great Lakes: 300 Years of Navigation | Barry, James P | Howell-North | 0-8310-7105-2 | USA Canada Great Lakes exploration navigation trade canoe sail steam |
| Ships of the High Seas | Abranson, Erik | Peter Lowe | 0-85654-019-6 | archaeology nuclear Liberty whaling clipper Mayflower iron |
| Ships of the Holland-America Line | Fleming, H M Le | John Marshbank | Company fleet WW1 WW2 | |
| Ships of the Inland Rivers | Parsons, Ronald | Gould Books | ||
| Ships of The Inland Sea | Newell, Gordon R | Binfords & Mort | Puget Pacific ferry paddlesteamer gold company shipwreck | |
| Ships of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Ltd | Henry, Fred | Brown Son & Ferguson | ferry IoM | |
| Ships of the Libera Line | Goldberg, Mark H | A J Hilgersom-Navigare | 90-70135-094 | NLT company Italy Adriatic Trieste passenger cargo Trans-Atlantic tramp fleet Monte Grappa Duchessa D’Aosta |
| Ships of the Line | Elwood, Tony | Telecom Technology Showcase | 0-948257-86-5 | Goliath wire Great Eastern WW1 WW2 map fleet chronology Iris |
| Ships of the London River | Fleming, H M Le | Adlard Coles Ltd | docks liners frieghters coastal colliers tugs company Thames | |
| Ships of the London River | Pollard, Arthur | Model and Allied | Tug Merchant Thames river | |
| Ships of the Merchant Navy | Hurd, Archibald | Shipping World | company shipbuilding liner cargo tanker refrigeration | |
| Ships of the Mersey and Manchester | Fleming H M Le | Adlard Coles | Funnel tug liner tanker dock canal chart | |
| Ships of the New Zealand Shipping Company | Ships of the New Zealand | GP Books | 0-477-00015-0 | history company steamer fleet vessel Dawes trade cargo sail WW1 |
| Ships of the North Atlantic | Ships of the North Atlantic | Sampson Low, Marston | Anchor Canadian Pacific Cunard Blue Funnel Pacific Steam Elder Dempster Bibby White Star P&O British India Blue Riband merchant navy liner | |
| Ships of the Orient Line | Ships of the Orient Line | Adlard Coles | Orient company | |
| Ships of the P and O | Course, A G | Adlard Coles | company P&O | |
| Ships of the Panama Canal | Shaw, James L | |||
| Ships of the Past | Davis, Charles G | Bonanza Books | 0-85177-163-7 SP | model sailplan deckplan lines frigate clipper schooner |
| Ships of the Paterson Fleet [The] | Onchulenko, Gene | Riverbank Traders | 0-9697606-4-7 | Great Lakes company chronology list WW2 Canada Seaway Orkney |
| Ships of the Port of London | Marsden, Peter | English Heritage | 1-85074-470-X | London archaeology port construction Roman Celtic Thames |
| Ships of the Redwood Coast | McNairn, Jack | |||
| Ships of the Revolution: Potemkin and Aurora | French, Brian | Grosvenor House Publishing | 978-1-78623-689-0 | Russia revolution battleship Odessa Potemkin Aurora mutiny Bolsheviks Pacific Britain navy Japan Togo |
| Ships of the Royal Mail Lines | Dowden, Prosper | Adlard Coles | Royal Mail company | |
| Ships of the Royal Navies | Parkes, Oscar | Sampson Low, Marston | warship navy catalogue list | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy | Blackman, Raymond V B | Macdonald and Jane’s | 0356-04596-x | textbook list warship |
| Ships of the Royal Navy | Colledge, J J | World Ship Society | 0-905617-40-1 | list warloss |
| Ships of the Royal Navy | McMurtrie, Francis E | Sampson Low, Marston and Co | War losses WW2 Second World War | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy | McMurtrie, Francis E | Sampson Low, Marston and Co | War losses WW2 Second World War | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy | McMurtrie, Francis E | Sampson Low, Marston and Co | War losses WW2 Second World War | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy | Parkes, Oscar | Sampson Low, Marston | warship navy catalogue list | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy | Ships of the Royal Navy | Maritime Books | submarine nuclear conventional aircraft carrier assault destroyer frigate Amazon minesweeper patrol island survey royal tug trials torpedo air arm | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy | Ships of the Royal Navy | Hutchinson | navy battleship cruiser destroyer submarine carrier trawler | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy [The] | Ships of the Royal Navy | Griffin & Co | navy ironclad | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy Vol 1 | Colledge, J J | Greenhill Books | 0-947898-75-1 | RN navy warships list British |
| Ships of the Royal Navy Vol 1 | Colledge, J J | Greenhill Books | 0-947898-75-1 | RN navy warships list British |
| Ships of the Royal Navy Vol 2 | Colledge, J J | Greenhill Books | 1-85367-028-6 | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy Vol 2 | Colledge, J J | Greenhill Books | 1-85367-028-6 | Navy list trawlers drifters tugs and requisitioned ships |
| Ships of the Royal Navy: Statement of Losses During the Second World War | Admiralty | HMSO | WW2 loss | |
| Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete record of all fighting ships of the Riyal Navy from the fifteenth century to present | Colledge, J J | Greenhill Books | 1-85367-566-0 | RN navy warships list British |