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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Code List For 1887 [The] | British Code | Spottiswoode & Co | Flags signals codes | |
| British Columbia Coast (South Portion) Sailing Directions | British Columbia | Fisheries & Oceans | 0-660-13723-2 | pilotage directions Pacific |
| British Columbia Ports Handbook 1986 | British Columbia | Charter | 0265-1878 | port guide transport communication railways highways Squamish Vancouver oil container charges wharf |
| British Columbia Shipwrecks | Paterson, T W | Stagecoach Publishing | 0-88983-007-X | shipwreck Canada torpedo Vancouver Puget Victoria salvage |
| British Corporation for the Survey and Registry of Shipping 1897 | British Corporation | British Corporation | Britain shipping register | |
| British Corporation for the Survey and Registry of Shipping 1913 | British Corporation | British Corporation | Britain shipping register | |
| British Corporation for the Survey and Registry of Shipping 1919 | British Corporation | British Corporation | Britain shipping register | |
| British Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft Register of Ships 1929 | British Corporation | British Corporation | Britain list register | |
| British Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft Register of Ships 1932 | British Corporation | British Corporation | Britain list register | |
| British Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft Register of Ships 1947-48 | British Corporation | British Corporation | Britain list register aircraft | |
| British Cross-Channel Railway Passenger Ships | Winser, John de S | Patrick Stephens | 1-85260-459-X | ferry Dover Guernsey Calais Dover Sealink Harwich Antwerp Ireland Holyhead Stranraer Fleetwood Folkeston |
| British Cruise Ship [The] | Collard, Ian | Amberley | 978-1-4456-2121-0 | cruising |
| British Cruisers | Lenton, H T | Macdonald | 356-04138-7 | RN World War 2 WW2 |
| British Cruisers in World War One | Burt, R A | Arms & Armour Press | 0-85368-814-1 | frigates dazzle Dardanelles Mediterraen RN WW1 Eclipse Malta Scapa Devonport mine dockyard |
| British Destroyer [The] | Manning, T D | navy destroyer | ||
| British Destroyers 1892 – 1918 | Crossley, Jim | Osprey Publishing | 789-1-84603-514-2 | torpedo River Class Tribal Class G Class H Class I Class K Class L Class M Class R Class S Class V Class W Class Flotilla armament Texel Jutland Dover Patrol Escort Duty |
| British Destroyers 1892-1953 | March, Edgar J | Seeley Service & Co | deckplans lines builders design construction torpedo kotters turbine Crusader Defender Thornycroft | |
| British Destroyers in World War One | Burt, R A | Arms and Armour | 0-85368-753-6 | Tribal class Laforey class M class Lightfoot class R Class V Class 27-knotters 30-knotters |
| British Destroyers in World War Two | Burt, R A | Arms and Armour | 0-85368-748-X | Martin dazzle Skate Thornycroft Wallace radar Broke Wolfhound Hasty Hotspur |
| British Escort Ships | Lenton, H T | Macdonald and Janes | 0-356-08062-5 | sloops corvettes frigates dazzle diesel electric turbo |
| British Excursion Ship [The] | Robins, Nick | Brown Son & Ferguson | 085174-658-6 | disaster engineering paddlesteamer turbine Langlands Cornwall Scillonian |
| British Figurehead and Ship Carvers | Thomas, P N | Waine Research Publications | 0-905184-16-5 | figurehead carving |
| British Fisheries Directory [The] 1883-1884 | British Fisheries Directory | Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington | Acts comercial fishing salmon herrings | |
| British Fishery at Newfoundland 1634-1763 [The] | Lounsbury, Ralph Greenlee | Yale Historical Publications | environments charter regulations law war trade smuggling Beauclerk France Spain New England historical | |
| British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Craft Part 1 | White, E W | HMSO | lugger trawler Brixham quay punt coracle prawner yole | |
| British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Craft Part 1 | White, E W | HMSO | lugger trawler Brixham quay punt coracle prawner yole | |
| British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Craft Part 1 and 2 | White, E W | Science Museum | fishing coaster catalogue museum | |
| British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Craft Part 2 | White, E W | HMSO | catalogue Thames Scotland Ireland inventory | |
| British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Craft Part 2 | White, E W | HMSO | fishing model lugger pilot cutter trawler smack Thames | |
| British Flags | Perrin, W G | Cambridge University Press | England Scotland Ireland royal admiralty warship signal | |
| British Fleet and Escort Destroyers Vol 1 | Lenton, H T | Macdonald | 356-03122-5 | RN World War 2 WW2 |
| British Fleet and Escort Destroyers Vol 2 | Lenton, H T | Macdonald | 356-03122-5 | RN World War 2 WW2 |
| British Gallantry Awards | Abbott, P E | Guinness Superlatives | 85112-173-X | British gallantry award medal |
| British Harbour Craft | Richardson, S C E | Marinart | harbour tug pilot dock dredger fireship | |
| British Herring Industry [The] | Unsworth, Christopher | Amberley | 978-1–4456-1081-8 | WW1 ports stations WW2 welfare exports Russia fishing investors insurance Cornwall |
| British Historical Society of Portugal [The] Vol 36 | British Historical | British Historical Society | Huguenot Portugal Douro Cornwall Tagus Peninsular Tennyson Oporto Warre obituary Livermore | |
| British India Steam Navigation Co Liners of the 1950s and 1960s | Miller, William H | Amberley | 978-1-4456-3591-0 | BISN company history fleet deck plan passenger |
| British India Steam Navigation Company Limited [The] | Laxon, W A | World Ship Society | 0-905617-65-7 | Ceylon MacKinnon Mackenzie chronology lines fleet list livery company |
| British Invasion Fleets | Winser, John de S | World Ship Society | 0-9543310-0-1 | directory WW2 Mediterranean naval |
| British Isles a Symphony in Colour [The] | British Isles | Colour Library International | 0-906558-50-6 | Ireland Scotland fishing dinghy lighthouse encyclopaedia |
| British Lighthouses | Bowen, J P | Longmans Green and Co | construction signal sound Grace Darling Atlantic Bristol channel lights Robert Stevenson beacon buoy lightship lightvessel radio | |
| British Marine Industry [The] | Pickthall, Barry | British Marine Industries Federation | 1-873258-0-39 | Dunkirk evacuation tug mirror Fairey wood fibreglass resin WW2 marina Thornycroft Fairmile |
| British Marine Science and Meteorology The history of their Development and Application to Marine Fishing Problems | British Marine | Buckland Foundation | fishing fisheries research marine science meteorology ICES Scotland UK Green | |
| British Merchant Adventurers | Collis, Maurice | William Collins | traders Fitch India Burma Roe East India Company White Clive Africa Park Raffles | |
| British Merchant Navy [The] | Fenton, Roy | Ships in Focus | 1-901703-45-2 | art merchant |
| British Merchant Navy 1937-8 [The] | Talbot-Booth, E C | Sampson Low Marston | register recognition flags British Empire funnels dimensions tonnage shipbuilder fuel cargo | |
| British Merchant Service [The] | Cornewell-Jones, R J | Sampson Low, Marston & Co | merchant medieval armada East India Company Australia company | |
| British Merchant Shipping [Losses] World War 1 | British Merchant Shipping | New Zealand Ship & Marine Society | Wartime statistics | |
| British Merchant Ships | British Merchant Ships | Rich & Cowan | flags funnels Anchor P&O Red Star Union-Castle Orient New Zealand | |
| British Merchant Ships | Streater, R A | Orion Books | 0-94649-00-2 | merchant UK list register deckplan |