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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Ships of Whitby [The] | Bagshawe, G W | Horne and Son | fishing whaling herring shipwrecks Cowes | |
| Wooden Walls Among the Ice Floes | Greene, William Howe | Hutchinson | seal Newfoundland | |
| Wooden Walls in Action | Bowen, Frank C | Halton & Co Ltd | woodenwall armada Nelson RodneyHMS France blockade Caribbean | |
| Wooden Walls to Stone Frigate: HMS Cambridge Story | Endacott, Andy | D L Endacott | 0-9511527-4-2 | gunnery school Devonport Royal Navy RN officer |
| Wooden World [The] | Rodger, N A M | Collins | 0-00-216548-1 | uniform navy victualling textbook sociology mutiny |
| WoodenBoat Index Supplement Issues 101-126 1991-1995 | WoodenBoat | WoodenBoat Publications Inc | 0-937822-35-3 | Index |
| Woodworking Machinery | Hudson, H R | George Newnes | woodworking tools | |
| Woodworking Tools | Proudfoot, Christopher | Phaidon – Christie’s | 0-7148-8005-1 | tools woodworking |
| Woodworking Tools | Walker, Philip | Shire Publications | 0-85263-501-X | carpentry |
| Wool and Ships | Gillison, Joan | wool company Australia mail Tasmania clipper Africa | ||
| Wordsworth Dictionary of Science and Technology [The] | Wordsworth Dictionary of Science | Wordsworth | 1-85326-351-6 | dictionary |
| Wordsworth Spanish Dictionary [The] | Wordsworth | Harrap Books | 1-85326-338-9 | dictionary Spanish English |
| Work of the Harbourmaster and Related Port Management Functions [The] | Work of the Harbourmaster | Nautical Institute | 1-870077-02-4 | port harbour law finance tug marina safety custom migration |
| Workaday Schooners | Workaday Schooners | International Marine Publishing | 0-87442-012-2 | schooner America |
| Working Boat | Working Boat | Heartland Press | 0-9517755-7-X | canal cargo Midland |
| Working Boats | Alsop, Roger | David and Charles | 0-7153-9181-X | canals narrow boats |
| Working Boats of Britain | McKee, Eric | Conway Maritime | 0-85177-277-3 | shipbuilding lines rowing fishing salmon lugsail sailplan |
| Working Boats of the World | Goddard, David | Exeter Maritime Museum | working boat design history | |
| Working Life on Severn and Canal: Reminiscences of working boatmen | Conway-Jones, Hugh | Alan Sutton | 0-86299-745-3 | canal Severn barge tug tanker motor lighter longboat cargo Gloucester Worcester Birmingham Cadbury WW2 |
| Working of Steam Boilers | Hiller, Edward G | Bethell & Co | steam boiler | |
| Working on the Edge | Walker, Spike | St Martins Press New York | 0-312-08924-4 | fishing Alaska Aleutian Islands crab Royal Quarry Williwaw Wind Rondys Elusive |
| Working Sail | Powell, Luke | Dovecote Press | 978-0-9573119-1-6 | Gweek pilot cutters Scillies Greece Faversham Charmian Eve Lissie Lay Agnes Hesper Ezra Tallulah Amelie Rose boat building construction lines rigging |
| Working the Tides | Working the Tides | Harbour Publishing | 1-55017-153-4 | Canada fishing salmon gillnet seine herring diving Vancouver |
| Working Traditional Sail | Emmett, Michael C R | Gaff Rig Publications | 978-0-9529554-1-2 | Maldon boatbuilding coastal sailing traditional working boat Thames Estuary and East Coast |
| Working Watercraft | Gillmer, Thomas C | Patrick Stephens Limited | 0-85059-126-0 | history workboats fishing cargo passenger North America West Indies Scandinavia Britain Mediterranean Britain design layout dimensions |
| Workington | Jackson, Herbert | Hirst-Jackson | Cumbria history | |
| Workshop Technology Part 1 | Chapman, W A J | Edward Arnold | tools technology | |
| Workvessels of Japan 1978 | Workvessels of Japan | Japan Workvessel Association | port harbour steam turbine dredger cutter barge tug dock oil drilling geology crane dimensions | |
| World at Arms | Readers Digest | Readers Digest Association | WW2 | |
| World Atlas of Shipping | World Atlas | George Philip | 0-54005266-3 | atlas weather Atlantic Pacific steam design passenger cargo |
| World Canals | Hadfield, Charles | David & Charles | 0-7153-8555-0 | canal Panama Suez Dutch |
| World Connections Part 1 The Report | World Connections | South West Museums Council | 0-9513531-5-2 | museum England Bristol Cornwall Dorset Devon Bodmin Japan |
| World Connections Part 2 Directory of Collections | World Connections | South West Museums Council | museum | |
| World Cruise Ships | Middlemiss, Norman L | |||
| World Cruising Handbook | Cornell, Jimmy | Adlard Coles | 0-7136-5827-4 | formalities health communications Mediterranean Black Sea Europe Africa Caribbean Americas Pacific India |
| World Cruising Handbook | Cornell, Jimmy | Adlard Coles Nautical | 0-7136-4419-2 | formalities health communications flags entry regulations facilities ports customs migration |
| World Cruising Routes | Cornell, Jimmy | Adlard Coles | 0-7136-6211-5 | cruising route |
| World Cruising Routes | Cornell, Jimmy | Adlard Coles Nautical | 0-7136-4070-7 | planning winds currents weather pilots distance charts waypoints ports |
| World Cruising Survey | Cornell, Jimmy | Adlard Coles Nautical | 0-7136-6360-X | offshore blue water navigation communications safety |
| World Encompassed [The] | Scammell, G V | Methuen | 0-416-03282-6 | Norway German Venice Portugal Spain Dutch France UK trade |
| World Encompassed [The] | Wilson, Derek | Hamish Hamilton | 241-89624-X | Drake exploration privateer travel sailplan instrument |
| World Encyclopedia of Flags [The] | Znamierowski, Alfred | Joanna Lorenz | 1-84038-415-8 | flag encyclopedia custom design medieval coastguard Europe |
| World Fisheries What is to be done | Fridman, Alexander | Baird Publications, Victoria, Australia | 0-9587013-5-0 | fishing history trawling oceanography technology overfishing |
| World Fisheries Year-Book and Directory 1948 | World Fisheries | British-Continental Trade Press | fishing | |
| World Fleet Statistics 1996 | Lloyds | Lloyds | 1-900839-50-4 | merchant cargo fishing bulk liquid dry ro-ro passenger container refrigerated oil chemical gas disposals losses |
| World in the Viking Age [The] | World in the Viking Age | The Viking Ship Museum Roskilde | 978-87-85180-70-4 | Exploration discovery Ohthere Scandinavia Gokstad rigging Low Countries Northern Seas Arctic Abhara Indian Ocean Africa Belitung Jewel of Muscat India Africa Shovsholm dirham hoard Theodosios Mediterranean Yenkapi coinage Kaupang Truso Inchmarnock Hedeby |
| World is All Islands [The] | Nielsen, Carl | George Allen & Unwin | yacht cruising Panama Suez Indonesia Tahiti Australia Copenhagen Denmark | |
| World is Our Oyster 1847-1997 [The] | World is Our Oyster | Hapag-Lloyd AG | company Hapag Lloyd liner Atlantic steam Germany Hamburg New York history | |
| World of Jan Brandes 1743-1808 [The] | World of Jan Brandes | Waanders Publishers | 90-400-87563-3 | explorations Netherlands EastIndiaman art Africa Falmouth |
| World of Model Ships and Boats [The] | Williams, Guy R | Andre Deutsch/Rainbird | 0-233-96288-3 | model sail motor river carrack Greenwich electric packet |