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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasseys Naval Annual 1947 | Brasseys | William Clowes | foreign navies aviation collaboration sea land air flying boat Australia Japan atomic bomb pay treaties officials missions attaches WW2 | |
| Brasseys Naval Annual 1948 | Brasseys | William Clowes | conferences survey air power fleet estimates First Lord white paper Nimitz invasion revolt fuehrer Russia Mediterranean WW2 | |
| Brasseys Naval Annual 1949 | Brasseys | William Clowes | sea power defence foreign navies US marine engineering science dimensions estimates First Lord prize money officials missions attaches plans elevations diagrams WW2 | |
| Braune Segel im Wind | Stutz, Timm | Transpress | 3-344-00165-5 | regatta traditional wooden boat |
| Braunstons Boats | Webb, Mike | J M Pearson | 0-907864-04-X | canal narrowboat sociology lock Braunston |
| Braunton Home of the Last Sailing Coasters | Andrew, Robert D’Arcy | Braunton & District Museum | 978-1-902310-04-6 | Devon Cornwall ketch barge steel schooner Exeter canal lock IoS Q-ship |
| Braunton Ships and Seamen | Ellacott, S E | Braunton Museum | Devon barge coaster ketch steamer | |
| Brave Benbow | Benbow, William A | William Benbow | navy RN mutiny West Indies Spain Portugal Restoration privateer canal apprentice | |
| Brave Seaman of Youghal | Hackett, Mike | On Stream Publications | 1-897685-92-0 | shipwreck lighthouse WW2 World War Two driftnet fishing ropemaking |
| Bravo Zulu Bravo Alpha | Bravo Zulu | Gosling Foundation | navy Royal gig marine officer Dartmouth Devon | |
| Break Through | Wake-Walker, Edward | Granta Editions | 978-1-857570-88-5 | inflatable rescue surf lifesaving lifeguard RNLI Australia Captain Cook Cornwall competition Duke Kahanamoku |
| Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier 1942-1944 Vol 6 | Morison, Samuel Eliot | Little, Brown and Co | Papua Buna-Gon Bismark Sea Solomons Huon Yamamoto New Georgia Kula Gulf Kolombangara Vella Lavella Lae Salamaua Finschhafen Bougainville Empress Augusta Bay Rabaul Ainsworth aircraft types Barbey Burke Fitch Halsey Kenney PT Seabees Torokina Wilkinson | |
| Breaking the Chains | Pocock, Tom | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-275-5 | Ottoman navy Greece Mediterranean Napoleonic muslim Waterloo |
| Breeze For a Bargeman | Roberts, Bob | Terance Dalton Ltd | 0-86138-007-X | Suffolk Kent Africa Brazil West Indies fire |
| Breeze in the Willows [A] | Johnson, Allen | Ten Speed Press | 0-89815-893-1 | poetry |
| Bremer Vulkan | Behling, Helmut | Hauchild Bremen | 3-931785-68-8 | shipbuilding German engine shipyard |
| Bremerhaven | Bremerhaven | Olms Presse | 3-487-08146-6 | constrution history fishing passenger traffic shipyard |
| Bremerhaven | Dierks, August | Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bremerhaven | fishing canning shipbuilding passenger traffic | |
| Brendan Voyage [The] | Severin, Tim | Hutchinson | 0-09-133100-5 | adventure Ireland Atlantic replica Faeroes Iceland coracle Newfoundland |
| Bressiaanse Vissers | Winde, H J de | Pirola | 90-6455-170-7 | fishing Dutch |
| Brest 92 Bateaux d’Hier et de Toujours | Brest 92 | Neptune Yachting | 2-909-292-037 | France Brittany lines rigging lighthouse Ar-men La Vieille Les Pierres-Noires Le Four Le Jument Kereon Blodwen Cancalaise Tofinou Bluewind Pen Duick lugger La Pauline St Aygulf Clapotis rescue Les Trois Freres Bluebird of Chelsea Campbell NetherlanBelem |
| Breton Fishermen in Cornwall and Scilly A Century of Friendship | McWilliams, John | St Ives Trust | 987-0-9554398-1-0 | Brittany shellfish crabber France fishing Helford mackerel drifter trawler rescue shipwreck |
| Bricks and Brickies | Willmott, F G | Meresborough Books | 0-905270-01-0 | Eastwoods Bricks Brickmakers barges |
| Bricks and Sails | Bricks | Great Grimsby Borough Council Museum and Heritage Service | 1-874098-01-8 | Humber keel sloop John Franks shipbuilder brickmaker history |
| Bridge acropss the North Sea [A] | Jerman, Gunnar | Norwegian-British Chamber of Commerce | NBCC trade timber oil Norway | |
| Bridge Across the Atlantic | Reyburn, Wallace | Harrap | 0-245-50888-0 | London bridge Waterloo Lake Havasu harbour docks Robert Stevenson Smeaton Bell rock James Watt Albion Mills |
| Bridge Across the Seas A/S Ivarans rederi 1920-1995 | Kolltveit, Bard | A/S Ivarans Redderi | 82-993649-0-6 | shipowner company Ivaran Atlantic container Norway passenger |
| Bridge Over Lyonesse | Chudleigh, Daphne | IoS company airbus Scillonian mail lifeboat gig flowers | ||
| Bridge to Engine Room | Bridge to Engine Room | Sea Breezes/Print Centres Ltd | 1-873120-47-8 | windjammer Alaska tug steam solo Norway Shetland Carmania Cap Trafalgar Automedon |
| Bridge to the Seven Seas [A] | Schaap, Dick | Meijer Pers bv | 0-85059-127-9 | Holland-America company Atlantic passenger liner immigation US |
| Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company [The] | Bridgeport Steamboat Company | Bridgeport & Port Jefferson | Massachusetts harbour ferry company paddlesteamer shipyard | |
| Bridging the Tide | Richards, B | River Fal ferry passenger steam Falmouth St Mawes Flushing King Harry Passage history | ||
| Bridgwater and the River Parrett in Old Photographs | Bridgwater and the River Parrett | Alan Sutton Pub Ltd | 0-7509-0518-2 | estuary Flat Holme mud-horse ferry Axe trows Severn Burnham on Sea Highbridge Combwich Pill Dunball Trinity Waverley paddlesteamer railway Sully & Co |
| Bridgwater Docks and the River Parrett | Murless, Brian J | Somerset CC Library Service | 0861831578 | Bridgwater dock canal dredger Brunel company |
| Bridlington Life-Boats [The] | Fawcett, Ralph S | Great Gale 1871 rowing sailing motor | ||
| Bridport Harbour | Cocksedge, A E | Hindson & Partners | 1-874554-00-5 | shipbuilding Bridport list deckplan |
| Brief Glory The Story of a Quest | Morgan, D W | Brython Press | Aberdovey Barmouth We Two Conway schooner Wales Aberystwyth Portmadoc Fishguard | |
| Brief History of British Sea Power [A] | Howarth, David | Book Club Associates | 1-84119-792-0 | Ireland Roman Viking Napoleonic Mary Rose Pepys armada Nelson |
| Brief History of Mutiny [A] | Woodman, Richard | Consable & Robinson | 978-1-84119-737-1 | Magellan Drake Bligh Potemkin Parker Buckner Surprise Hermione Worth Mackenzie Somers |
| Brief History of the Post Office [A] | Brief History | GPO | post mail Elizabethan Tudor Stuart London steam telegraph | |
| Brig Susannah of Aberdyfi | Lloyd, Lewis | trade Roger Peters insurance conditions | ||
| Bright Images | Harvey, Victoria | Upper Thames Sailing Club | 0-9509523-0-3 | History founder members commodores boats yachts raters racing winners Queens Connaught Gold cups Bourne week club building |
| Bright Light White Water | Long, Bill | New Island Books | 1-874597-64-2 | light Fastnet Sligotender bouy automation keeper Belfast Valentia helicopter |
| Brightlingsea One Design Harrold Norrington’s Orginal Film | Brightlingsea One Design | ID Productions | DVD Brightlingsea | |
| Brilliance of Sunbeams [The] | Nicholson, Peter | Solent Sunbeams | Westmacott racing one design rules schooner Cowes Week XOD Falmouth RCYC Fowey Mylor | |
| Bristol Africa and the Eighteenth Century Slave Trade Vol 3 | Bristol Afica | Bristol Records Society | 0-901538-12-4 | Bristol slavery Africa Caribbean France shipowner US |
| Bristol Channel Album [A] | Collard, Chris | Tempus | 978-0-7524-4415-4 | paddlesteamer company Cardiff Falmouth Devon Somerset |
| Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters | Phillips, David H | South West Maritime History Society | ISSN 0269-2201 | Thesis history builders construction lines rigging sails sailmakers pilots racing ports |
| Bristol Channel Pleasure Steamers | Wall, Robert | David & Charles | 0-7153-6069-8 | Bristol excursion passenger Wales paddlesteamer Minehead |
| Bristol Channel Shipping Memories | Wiltshire, Andrew | Bernard McCall | 1-902953-25-8 | motor Wales iron tanker RFA Swansea ferry tug Trinity ore |