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 Tugs | British Tugs | Offerpace Ltd | anchor UK Liverpool Felixstow Gravesend Rochester Fife Southampton Cory | |
| British Tugs | Chesterton, D Ridley | Ian Allan | salvage towage craft Thames launch toshers tender Admiralty houseflags Medway | |
| British Tugs (1956) | Fleming, H M le | Ian Allan | tug company | |
| British Tugs (1957) | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | tug company | |
| British Tugs (1960) | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | tug company | |
| British Tugs (1965) | Chesterton, D Ridley | Ian Allan | salvage towage craft Thames launch toshers tender Admiralty houseflags Medway | |
| British VCs of World War 2 | Laffin, John | Sutton Publishing | 1-84015-107-2 | medal WW2 army navy RAF |
| British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 | British Vessels Lost | HMSO | 0085059-384-0 | WW1 warships mine submarine torpedo |
| British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 and 1939-45 | British Vessels Lost | Patrick Stephens Ltd | 1-85260-134-5 | losses WW1 WW2 list personnel merchant fishing |
| British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 and 1939-45 | British Vessels Lost | Patrick Stephens | 1-85260-134-5 | losses WW1 WW2 list personnel merchant fishing |
| British Vessels Lost at Sea 1939-45 | British Vessels Lost | HMSO | 0-85059-267-4 | warship auxiliary warloss landing fishing casualty |
| British Warship Designs since 1906 | Stephen, G M | Ian Allan | 0-7110-1519-8 | navy shipbuilding lines battleship frigate carrier MTB MGB |
| British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1650-1859 | Hepper, David J | Jean Boudriot Publications | 0-948864-30-3 | warloss weather records RN navy list sources |
| British Warship Losses of World War 2 | Lenton, H T | Ian Allan | Malta sloops minesweeper corvettes frigates cutters barrage mine gunboats tugs | |
| British Warship Names | Manning, T D | Putnam | RN dictionary WW1 WW2 | |
| British Warships | Dunn, Laurence | Longacre | navy warship | |
| British Warships | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | Australia Canada New Zealand India Pakistan Ceylon Afria | |
| British Warships | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | battleship carriers cruisers minelayers missile destroyers frigates submarines | |
| British Warships | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | navy warship shipbuilding warloss | |
| British Warships | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | Clyde Chatham Cammell Laird Swan Hunter Yarrow Thornycroft | |
| British Warships | Fleming, H M Le | Ian Allan | navy warship shipbuilding warloss | |
| British Warships | Lenton, H T | Ian Allan | carriers cruisers minelayers destroyers frigates submarines auxiliaries | |
| British Warships | Lenton, H T | Ian Allan | carriers cruisers minelayers destroyers frigates submarines auxiliaries | |
| British Warships & Auxiliaries | Bush, Steve | Maritime Books | 978-1-904459-31-6 | RN submarine helicopter frigate ice RMC RFA tankers tender oiler missiles |
| British Warships 1860-1906 | Dingle, Nicholas | Pen & Sword Maritime | 978-1-84415-980-2 | history photography warship Royal Navy battleship design cruiser frigate |
| British Warships 1914-1919 | Dittmar, F J | Ian Allan | 7110-0380-7 | List shipbreakers rename RN pendants survey troopship hospital harbour |
| British Warships 1975 | Goss, J W | Marinart | 0-904478-0-76 | Ark Royal pendent amphibious oil gas missile frigate submarine mine offshore nuclear survey |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1979 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-9506323-0-9 | carrier destroyer frigate submarine minesweeper survey |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1980 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-9506323-1-7 | RFA navy warship submarine destroyer frigate tanker tug |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1983/84 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-907771-05-X | warship auxiliary tug tanker hovercraft carrier submarine |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1985/86 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | warship auxiliary tug | |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1987/88 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-907771-30-0 | navy warship carrier destroyer frigate submarine survey |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1988/89 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-907771-36-X | warship auxiliary tug landing helicopter |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1990/91 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-907771-44-0 | FAA army salvage tugs tenders tankers surveys frigates pennants carriers |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1991/92 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-907771-47-5 | navy warship auxiliary Royal yacht tug minesweeper |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1997/98 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | navy RFA FAA Fleet Air Arm carrier submarine minesweeper patrolboat | |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 1999/2000 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-907771-68-8 | navy gun missile destroyer minesweeper carrier patrolboat |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 2000/2001 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-90771-72-6 | missile gun aircraft helicopter FAA Fleet Air Arm RFA navy frigate survey |
| British Warships and Auxiliaries 2002/2003 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-907771-85-8 | warship navy RFA FAA Fleet Air Arm missile submarine minesweeper aircraft |
| British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714 | Winfield, Rif | Seaforth Publishing | 978-1-84832-040-6 | First second third fourth fifth sixth rate sloop ketch fireship brigantine unarmed auxiliary ketch |
| British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792 | Winfield, Rif | Seaforth Publishing | 978-1-84415-700-6 | chronology ststistics gun US sloop bomb cutter schooner discovery exploration fireship |
| British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 | Winfield, Rif | Chatham Publishing | 1-86716-346-1 | navy woodenwall lines design construction Napoleonic |
| British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863 | Winfield, Rif | Seaforth Publishing | 978-1-84832-169-4 | Three decker first second third fourth fifth sixth rate schooner frigate brig sloop corvette gunboat paddle training mortar ironclad |
| British Warships of the Second World War | Roberts, John | Chatham | 1-86176-131-7 | warship WW2 navy design construction blueprint |
| British Warships since 1945 Part 2 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-9506323-6-8 | Chatham Barrow Vickers warlosses Tyne Birkenhead Greenock Scotts netlayers maintenance |
| British Warships Since 1945 Part 3 Destroyers | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-9506323-9-2 | Malta tribal Town Onslow Hunt Atherstone Blankney frigate Daring Portland Weapon missile |
| British Warships since 1945 Part 4 Minesweepers | Worth, Jack | Maritime Books | 0-907771-12-2 | Minesweepers |
| British Warships the Royal Navy | British Warships | Illustrated London News | torpedo MTB battleship cruiser carriers anti-aircraft minelayers destroyers submarines | |
| British WarshipsSince 1945 Part 1 | Critchley, Mike | Maritime Books | 0-9506323-4-1 | battleships carriers aircraft maintenance cruisers monitors Nelson Rodney Anson Howe Vanguard |
| British Waterways Board Annual Report and Accounts 31st Dec 1983 | British Waterways Board | British Waterways Board | 0-90-321830-5 | canal lock angling warehouse |