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 Merchant Ships Sunk by U Boats in the 1914-1918 War | Tennent, A J | Starling Press | 0-9516314-0-3 | list Germany WW1 torpedo submarine Manchester Newcastle Hull Goole Liverpool |
| British Merchant Vessels Lost or Damaged by Enemy Action During the Second World War | Admiralty | HMSO | casualty WW2 merchant warloss | |
| British Military Longarms 1715-1815 | Bailey, D W | Arms and Armour | 85368-067-1 | weapon army firearms |
| British Moth [The] | British Moth | British Moth Boat Association | racing dinghy restoration lines design plywood Wroxham | |
| British Motor Coasters | Waine, Charles V | Black Dwarf | 9781903599-24-2 | Appledore Shipbuilders Brons Cleland Coppack Crossley Drypool Engineering Everard Grangemouth London & Rochester Polar Pollocks Ruston diesel Mirlees Blackstone Robertson Shipowners deckplan section lines |
| British Motor Fishing Vessels | McWilliams, John | Amberley | 978-1-4456-7863-4 | motor fishing pilchard long liner crabber beach boat bawley cockler drifter seiner ring netter |
| British Motor Gun Boat 1939-1945 | Konstam, Angus | Osprey Publishing Ltd | 978-1-84908-077-4 | World War Two WW2 MGB armament Denny Fairmile construction |
| British Motor Yachts | Harvey, Derek | Robert Ross & Co | deck plans | |
| British Motor Yachts | Harvey, Derek | Robert ross | yacht steam motor | |
| British Nationalised Shipping | Clegg, W Paul | David & Charles | 7513-4315-7 | Atlantic steam tug container rail road transport Caledonian ferry packet |
| British Naval Aircraft since 1912 | Thetford, Owen | Putnam | 0-370-30021-1 | aircraft design seaplane helicopter FAA Fleet Air Arm RNAS |
| British Naval Armaments | British Naval | Royal Armouries | 0-948092-11-4 | guns cannons RN cartridges Browne Rupert Carronades Blomefield gunlocks ballistics Fort Nelson |
| British Naval Aviation | Sturtivant, Ray | Arms and Armour | 0-85368-938-5 | Fleet Air Arm navy seaplane aircraft carrier helicopter medical merchant MAC |
| British Naval Documents 1204-1960 | British Naval Documents | Scolar Press | 0-85967-947-0 | navy document bibliography ordnance operation |
| British Naval Dress | Jarrett, Dudley | J M Dent & Sons Ltd | Cochrane WW2 Walpole Clowdisley Shovel WRNS Cockburn | |
| British Naval Swords and Swordsmanship | McGrath, John | Seaforth | 978-1-84832-135-9 | Nelson cutlasses dirks presentation swords training sport |
| British Navies in the Second World War [The] | James, W M | Longmans Green | Germany Tirpitz submarine marines convoy Atlantic FAA Fleet Air Arm amphibious | |
| British Navy [The] | Protheroe, Ernest | George Routledge | navy WW1 battleship Nelson cruiser medal Fisher warloss | |
| British Navy [The] | Warner, Oliver | Thames & Hudson | 0-500-01139-7 | navy WW1 WW2 medieval Roman Mary Rose Elizabethan Armada |
| British Navy Book [The] | Field, Cyril | Blackie | navy WW1 uniform submarine battleship figurehead ordnance | |
| British Navy in the Present Year of Grace [The] Vol 2 1886 | British Navy | Hamilton Adhams | navy Victorian officer flag admiralty politics Africa | |
| British Ocean Freighters | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | Shipping company merchant ship recognition | |
| British Ocean Freighters | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | Shipping company merchant ship recognition | |
| British Ocean Freighters | Moody, B | Ian Allan | Shipping company merchant ship recognition | |
| British Ocean Liners | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | Shipping company merchant ship recognition | |
| British Ocean Liners | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | Shipping company merchant ship recognition | |
| British Ocean Liners | Miller, William | Patrick Stephens | 0-85059-766-8 | ocean liner steam company cruising Blue Star Blue Funnel Booth |
| British Ocean Liners | Moody, B | Ian Allan | Shipping company merchant ship recognition | |
| British Ocean Racing | Phillips-Birt, Douglas | Adlard Coles | yacht racing club Fastnet Bermuda RORC | |
| British Ocean Tankers | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | Shipping company merchant ship recognition | |
| British Ocean Tankers | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | Shipping company merchant ship recognition | |
| British Ocean Tankers | Moody, B | Ian Allan | company merchant ship recognition | |
| British Ocean Tramps Vol 1 | Thomas, P N | Waine Research Publications | 0-905184-13-0 | tramp steam cargo shipbuilding shipowner deckplan lines sailplan design construction |
| British Ocean Tramps Vol 2 | Thomas, P N | Waine Research | 0-905184-14-9 | tramp harbour fleet Truro Chellow St Ives Badcock Hain owner harbour shipbuilder |
| British Oceanographic Vessels 1800-1950 | Rice, Tony | Ray Society | 0-903874-19-9 | oceanography list chronology engine whaler barque Antarctic |
| British Orders Decorations and Medals | Hall, Donald | Balfour Publications | 0-85944-000-1 | medals |
| British Pacific Fleet and East Indies Fleet 50th Anniversary [The] | British Pacific | Brodie | 1-874447-28-4 | WW2 navy Pacific East India Company RAF |
| British Paddle Steamers | Body, Geoffrey | David & Charles | 0-7153-5118-4 | Napier Clyde Mersey Thames Sirius Australia Cunard Collins IoM Scotia P&O |
| British Passenger Liners | Dunn, Laurence | Adlard Coles Ltd | Anchor Bibby troopship Holt Booth Cunard Donaldson Elder Dempster Fyffes Glen | |
| British Passenger Liners of the Five Oceans | Gibbs, C R Vernon | Putnam | passenger P&O British India Anchor Ellerman Union-Castle Blue Funnel Shaw Savill F & S Lines White Star Red Star Leyland Furness Elder Dempster | |
| British Pleasure Steamers 1920-1939 | Grimshaw, Geoffrey | Richard Tilling | Clyde CI Channel Isles Bristol IoM Thames Cornwall Ireland steamer | |
| British Polar Explorers | Evans, Edward | Collins | Artic Antarctic exploration whaling | |
| British Ports and Harbours | Walmsley, Leo | Collins | fishing port trade shipbuilding art harbour lighthouse docks | |
| British Postal Agencies in Mexico City, Vera Cruz and Tampico 1825-1876 | Heath, John M | Robson Lowe Ltd | postal services letters Mexico | |
| British Postmarks | Alcock, R C | R C Alcock Ltd | postmark mail RoyalMail packet cancellation Scotland Ireland | |
| British Power Boat Company | Smith, Mark | Mark Smith | 978-0-9930934-1-8 | motor torpedo gun anti submarine armaments |
| British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century | Starkey, David J | University of Exeter Press | 0-85989-312-X | privateer marque Spain crew Channel Devon Topsham Whitby Whitehaven |
| British Privateering Voyages of the Early Eighteenth Century | Beattie, Tim | Boydell Press | 978-1-78327-020-0 | privateer buccaneer South Sea Dampier Rogers Clipperton |
| British Railways Shipping and Allied Fleets the Postwar Period | Clegg, W Paul | David & Charles | 0-7153-5140-0 | Harwich Dover Dartmouth Holyhead Stranraer Humber Thames Folkstone Plymouth Heysham |
| British Railways Steamers | British Railways Steamers | Ian Allan | paddlesteamer Scotland ferry Dover Invicta Deal Dinard Newhaven Southampton CI Channel Isles Weymouth |