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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Britains Merchant Navy | Britains Merchant Navy | Odhams Press | merchant WW1 WW2 convoy canal trawler tug tramp navigation loss | |
| Britains Naval Power | Williams, Hamilton | Macmillan | privateers Drake Norman Crusades Nelson Bounty mutiny Bonaparte Armada | |
| Britains Post Office | Robinson, Howard | Oxford University Press | mail history UK Cornwall London Dover Harwich Palmer Freeling WW2 | |
| Britains Railways at War 1914-18 | Earnshaw, Alan | Atlantic | 0-906899-39-7 | WW1 railway ordnance army |
| Britains Restored Canals | Squires, Roger | Landmark Publishing | 978-1-84306-331-5 | inland waterways Stalybridge Kennet Avon Stratford Llangollen Basingstoke Ouse Derwent |
| Britain’s Sea War | Young, John M | Patrick Stephens | 1-95260-042-X | Great Britain WW2 ship loss directory |
| Britains Wonderful Fighting Forces | Britains Wonderful | Odhams Press | navy WW2 submarine ordnance convoy badge sociology airarm | |
| Britannia | Bowditch, Lyndsey | Blackboard Publishing | 0-9534881-0-1 | crew passengers Elizabeth history design deckplan fittings furniture engine boiler Queen |
| Britannia and Her Contemporaries [The] | Heckstall-Smith, B | Methuen & Co | Britannia Cowes lines deckplan cutter racing | |
| Britannia at Dartmouth | Pack, S W C | Alvin Redman | navy Dartmouth BritanniaHMS college | |
| Britannia has Wings | Hurd, Archibald | Hutchinson | RN Germany Churchill aviation FAA Fleet Air Arm Bismarck Matapan U-boat WW1 | |
| Britannia Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic | Fairfax, John | William Kimber | 7183-0352-0 | dinghy solo rowing lines victualing Atlantic log |
| Britannias Bulwarks | Britannias Bulwarks | Navy & Army Illustrated | ship navy art | |
| Britannias Daughters | Mason, Ursula Stuart | Leo Cooper | 0-85052-271-4 | WRNS navy WW2 Portsmouth D-Day training radio FAA Fleet Air Arm Greenwich |
| Britannias Realm In Support of the State 1763-1815 | Woodman, Richard | History Press | 978-0-7524-4819-0 | merchantmen slavers letters of marque whalers admiralty China convoys East India Company France impressment Pellew RN West Indies merchantmen privateers packets |
| British 19th Century Marine Painting | Brook-Hart, Denys | Antique Collectors Club | 902028-32-4 | art Brooking Chambers Hemy Hunt Pocock |
| British Admirals of the Eighteenth Century | Creswell, John | George Allen & Unwin | 0-04-901019-0 | navy signal operation |
| British Aircraft Carriers | Hobbs, David | Seaforth Publishing | 978-1-84832-138-0 | Fleet Air Arm FAA RN Royal Navy WW2 loss design MAC |
| British and American Clippers | MacGregor, David | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-588-8 | design construction tea clippers Soverign of the Seas Australia China |
| British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis submarines 1930-1945 | Tennent, Alan J | Sutton Publishing | 0-7509-2760-7 | U-boat |
| British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WW2 | Wright, Malcolm | Seaforth Publishing | 978-1-84832-205-9 | Destroyers frigates escorts minesweepers coastal warfare craft submarines auxiliary war paint schemes pictures description WW2 |
| British and Empire Warships of the Second World War | Lenton, H T | Greenhill Books | 1-85367-277-7 | WW2 naval operations flotilla minelayers minesweepers trawlers whalers drifters amphibious |
| British and Foreign Orders War Medals and Decorations | Payne, A A | J B Hayward & Son | regimental empire India Africa infantry militia yoemanry volunteer coronation | |
| British and International Racing Yacht Classes | British and International | Ward Lock & Co Ltd | Dragon Bluebottle Swallow Flying dinghy Swordfish 14 18 Merlin Rocket 12 Firefly Cadet Weymouth Cowes | |
| British Army [The] | Talbot-Booth, E C | Sampson Low, Marston | army badge flag uniform catalogue medal | |
| British Battle Cruisers | Smith, Peter C | Almark Publications | 0-85524-082-2 | Invincible Indefatigable Lion Tiger Beatty Renown Hood Repulse Germany tables pendant |
| British Battle Fleet: [The] Vol 1 [The] | Jane, Fred T | Library Press | navy shipbuilding Nelson ordnance privateer sociology lines | |
| British Battle Fleet: [The] Vol 2 | Jane, Fred T | Library Press | navy uniform shipbuilding sociology ordnance deckplan | |
| British Battleships 1860-1950 | Parkes, Oscar | Seeley Service & Co | 85422-002-X | ironclad navy muzzle timber wood hull turret erosion fouling Russia Egypt Japan Germany Dreadnought |
| British Battleships 1889-1904 | Burt, R A | Arms and Armour | 0-85368-914-8 | battleship design deckplan ordnance turret |
| British Battleships 1919-1939 | Burt, R A | Arms & Armour Press | 1-85409-068-2 | battleship dreadnought navy radio Scapa design carrier FAA |
| British Battleships and Aircraft Carriers | Lenton, H T | Macdonald | 356-03869-6 | RN World War 2 WW2 |
| British Battleships of World War One | Burt, R A | Seaforth Publishing | 978-1-84832-147-2 | battleship WW1 design construction ordnance warloss deckplan |
| British Bluejacket 1915-1940 | Edwards, A Trystan | Simpkin Marshall Ltd | seaman rank language education uniform Warspite | |
| British Bombers of World War 2 | British Bombers | Kelsey Publishing | 978-1-907426-23-0 | history WW2 RAF design development dimensions equipment Avro De Havilland Vickers Rolls Royce |
| British Campaign Medals | Laffin, John | Abelard-Schuman | medal Napoleonic Trafalgar India mutiny Victoria Africa | |
| British Canals | Hadfield, Charles | David & Charles | building revolution Birmingham Basingstoke Pontcysyllte ports Manchester Bridgewater Mersey Irwell | |
| British Capital Ships 1873-1946 | Marshall, Ian | navy history warship battleship paintings dimensions launch armament machinery WW1 WW2 | ||
| British Carrier Aviation | Friedman, Norman | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-488-1 | RN history jet Malta WW1 WW2 Ark Royal Fairey Flycatcher Unicorn deckplans Engadine |
| British Channel Pilot 1859 | Hobbs, J S | Charles Wilson | lighthouse light-vessel navigation tides | |
| British Coastal Forces of World War 2 | Kemp, Paul J | ISO Publications | 0-946784-52-3 | MTB torpedo armaments submarine MGB gun launch Fairmile propulsion Felixstowe Vosper ASR rescue |
| British Coastal Ships | Chesterton, D Ridley | Ian Allan | WhitehavenJersey Belfast London BristolLiverpool railways Wales Glasgow Cardiff Poole | |
| British Coastal Ships | Fleming, H M le | Ian Allan | Orkney Shetland Metcalf Macbrayne London Kennaugh Kyle Fisher Fenwick Everard | |
| British Coastal Ships Tugs and Trawlers | Chesterton, D Ridley | Ian Allan | 7110-0313-0 | pilot lighthouse oil rig research vessels dredges Irish Republic |
| British Coastal Ships Tugs and Trawlers | Mayes, Gilbert | Ian Allan | 07110-0592-3 | trawler tug list directory dredger pilot lighthouse salvage |
| British Coaster 1939-1945 | British Coaster | HMSO | merchant tides Dunkirk Channel convoy E-Boat D-Day Mulberry tug Sweden beaches | |
| British Coaster 1939-1945 | Ministry of Information | HMSO | WW2 coaster convoy Dunkirk D-Day | |
| British Coaster Fleets | Streater, R A | Marinart | company livery funnel Amey Bowker Bristol dredging Cairn Booker Cory Crescent Elder Dempster Ellermans | |
| British Coasters 1925 | British Coasters | Sampson, Low Marston | motor auxiliary draught cargo pumps IoM Devon Liverpool Hull Aberdeen Wales Guernsey Cornwall | |
| British Code List For 1881 [The] | British Code | Spottiswoode & Co | Flags signals codes |