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 Railways Steamers and Other Vessels | British Railway Steamers | Ian Allan | railway company cross channel steamer Wight ferry shipowner tonnage vessel Southampton France cargo container passenger | |
| British River Gunboats | Kemp, Paul J | ISO Publications | 0-946784-51-5 | Woodlark Teal Woodcock Moth Gnat Mantis Ladybird Cricket Glowworm Aphis |
| British Sail | Simper, Robert | David & Charles | 0-7153-7263-7 | whaler schooner smack slate trawler lugger Humber skiff gaff Cornwall Falmouth |
| British Sailing Cruiser Guide Part 1 A-J | British Sailing Cruiser | IPC Magazines/Practical Boat Owner | sailing cruiser yacht diesel ketch keel boatbuilding rig | |
| British Sailing Cruiser Guide Part 2 J-W | British Sailing Cruiser | IPC Magazines/Practical Boat Owner | sailing cruiser boatbuilding keel Southampton diesel Kent | |
| British Sailing Warships | Colledge, J J | Ian Allan | navy shipbuilding square rig FoudroyantHMS GangesHMS | |
| British Salt Water Fish | Aflalo, F G | Hutchinson | fishing grounds species habits fisheries cultivation | |
| British Sea Fishermen | Anson, Peter F | William Collins | fishing art Scotland Shetland Orkneys English channel Kent Devon Wales Solway Firth Mousehole Padstow lugger St Ives | |
| British Seafarer [The] | Mason, Michael | Hutchinson/BBC | 0-09-141951-4 | mathematics Atlantic Pacific shark Plymouth figurehead |
| British Seagull Service Manual | British Seagull | British Seagull Co | dismantling outboard 2 stroke spark ignition petrol oil magneto flywheel piston cylinder | |
| British Seamen | Mathew, David | William Collins | naval tradition wartime | |
| British Seas [The] | Hardisty, J | Routledge | 0-415-03586-4 | seabed tides waves geology sediment trade shipping hydrocarbons fishing mining waste disposal |
| British Shipbuilding and the State Since 1918 | Johnman, Lewis | University of Exeter | 0-85989-607-2 | shipbuilding WW2 merchant Tyne SwanH Clyde VLCC company |
| British Shipbuilding Facilities and Services | British Shipbuilding | Shipbuilding Conference | shipbuilders ship repairs engine builders dry docks | |
| British Shipbuilding Yards Vol 1 North-East Coast | Middlemiss, Norman L | Shield Publications | 1-871128-10-2-9 | Tyne Wear Blyth Hartlepool Tees Whitby Swan Hunter Wigham Doxford Furness Ropner |
| British Shipbuilding Yards Vol 2 Clydeside | Middlemiss, Norman L | Shield Publications | 1-871128-11-0 | company Clyde Govan Harland Wolff Yarrow Brown Denny Greenock |
| British Shipbuilding Yards Vol 3 Belfast Merseyside Barrow | Middlemiss, Norman L | Shield Publications | 1-871128-12-9 | Harland Wolff Cammal Birkenhead Cumbria Scotland Dundee Humber Thames tug Harvey Cox Falmouth Cornwall |
| British Shipping | British Shipping | Chamber of Shipping | security safety environment training insurance law | |
| British Shipping | Clegg, W Paul | Ian Allan | 0-7110-1787-5 | company list container tug cable hydrofoil paddlesteamer |
| British Shipping | Thornton, R H | Cambridge University Press | trade shipbuilding sociology shipowner | |
| British Shipping and Seamen 1630-1960 | British Shipping and Seamen | University of Exeter | 0-85989-280-8 | shipbuilding Trevaunance Portreath wreck railway Penzance Devon Cornwall |
| British Shipping Fleets | British Shipping | Ships in Focus | 1-901703-21-5 | Newry London Aberdeen Falkirk Manchester Liners Steamship Knutsford Joseph Fisher Runciman Canatlantic Rennie Harrison-Rennie Line Cardiff Hall Carron Company flag funnel list deckplan canal Clyde Forth |
| British Shipping Fleets Vol 2 | British Shipping | Ships in Focus | 978-1-901703-22-1 | Chellew Navigation Glover Brothers United Baltic Howdens of Larne Thomas Dunlop flags funnels |
| British Shipping its History Organisation and Importance | Kirkaldy, Adam W | Kegan Paul Trench Trubner | 678-05558-0 | company trade liner clipper East India steam port dock law |
| British Shipping Statistics 1968-1969 | British Shipping Statistics | Chamber of Shipping of UK | flag gross deadweight propulsion construction trade losses Panama exports imports | |
| British Shipping Statistics 1971-1972 | British Shipping Statistics | Chamber of Shipping of UK | flag gross deadweight propulsion construction trade losses Panama exports imports | |
| British Shipping Statistics 1973 | British Shipping Statistics | Chamber of Shipping of UK | flag gross deadweight propulsion construction trade losses Panama exports imports | |
| British Shipping Statistics 1974 | British Shipping Statistics | Chamber of Shipping of UK | flag gross deadweight propulsion construction trade losses Panama exports imports | |
| British Ships and Seamen Book 2 The Seamen | Uden, Grant | Macmillan & Co Ltd | health dress navigation uniform Greenwich Trafalgar sennet sword discipline gunVictory Rodney astrolabe | |
| British Ships and Shipbuilders | Blake, George | Collins | shipbuilding shipbuilder steam sail rigging art battle | |
| British Ships and Shipping Illustrated | Hardy, A C | A & C Black | liner Atlantic Pacific Elder Dempster India Shaw Panama | |
| British Short Sea Fleets [1975] | Streater, R A | Marinart | coaster company livery dredger Clyde Fisher P&O ferry Shell BP | |
| British Soldier [The] | Lucas, James | Arms and Armour | 0-85368-893-1 | WW2 sociology |
| British Standard Code of Practice For Maritime Structures Part 4 | British Standard Code | British Standards Institution | 0-580-14362-7 | BSI British Standards Institute code mooring capstan fender |
| British Steam Trawlers | Smith, Donald | Black Dwarf | 9781903599-23-5 | trawling steam gear history design construction deck fittings North Shields Aberdeen Dundee Forth Humber Plymouth WW1 WW2 sections plans lines Cook Welton & Gemmell Cochrane Consol Lewis refrigeration RNR Reserve |
| British Steam Tugs | Thomas, P N | Waine Research Publications | 0-905184-07-6 | tug steam wood paddlesteamer deckplan lines engine funnel |
| British Submarine [The] | Lipscomb, F W | Adam and Charles Black | WW1 World War One WW2 World War Two Design Victoria Cross crew | |
| British Submarines | Lenton, H T | Macdonald | 356-03612-X | RN World War 2 WW2 |
| British Submarines at war 1939-1945 | Mars, Alastair | William Kimber | 7183-0202-8 | submarine WW2 warloss convoy |
| British Submarines in World War 2 | Kemp, Paul J | Arms & Armour Press | naval operations WW2 | |
| British Submarines of World War 1 | Kemp, Paul J | Arms and Armour | 1-85409-010-0 | war losses submarine classes WW1 |
| British Tankers [The] | Middlemiss, Norman L | Shield Publications | 1-871128-03-X | oil Persian torpedo WW2 Tyne Mersey Cape Town |
| British Tankers [The] | Middlemiss, Norman L | Shield Publications | 1871128-03-X | BP Oil Alaska Tanker Lowland subsidiaries VLCC fleet |
| British Tar [The] | Robinson, Charles Napier | Harper and Brothers | navy poetry uniform sociology humour song art folklore | |
| British Toy Boats | Gillham, Roger | Veloce Publishing | 978-1-845843-64-9 | Airfix Hamley Hornby Bluebird Meccano model hovercraft yacht Scalex cruiser liner Penguin tugboat Triang Sutcliffe Skipper Bowman Star |
| British Tramp Shipping 1750-1914 | Craig, Robin | International Maritime Economic History Assoc | 0-9730073-4-6 | tramp port statistics Devon guano |
| British Tramps | Stewart, I G | Ian Stewart Marine Publications | 0-646-22271-6 | design construction tramp Doxford WW2 Australia Suez turbine |
| British Tramps, Coasters and Colliers | Dunn, Laurence | Longacre | merchant collier tramp coaster | |
| British Trawlers | Chesterton, D Ridley | Ian Allan | company Atlas Ross Ardossan Bannister Bosten Croan Fleetwood | |
| British Trawlers | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | company fishing Hudson diesel electric Brixham Grimsby Hull Marr Torbay Wyre |