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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventure of the Life-boat Service [The] | Saville, Malcolm | Macdonald | lifeboat rescue RNLI shipwreck | |
| Adventure of Whaling [The] | Crisp, Frank | Macmillan | whale whaling Greenland Arctic | |
| Adventures and Perils | Adventures and Perils | Michael Joseph | loss shipwreck Doddington Amazon Cumberland Lady Hobart Apollo Ramilles Duke William Vryheid Grosvenor Hercules Winterton Margate rescue Ganges China Torres Anson slaver | |
| Adventures Ashore and Afloat | Keyes, Roger | George G Harrap | biography navy Keyes yacht sociology | |
| Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail | Snow, Elliot | Marine Research Society, Salem | 0-486-25177-2 | sail adventure Falklands Pacific snow |
| Adventures of a Naval Paymaster [The] | Martin, W E R | Herbert Jenkins | biography navy paymaster | |
| Adventures of John Wetherell [The] | Adventures of John | Michael Joseph | adventure napoleonic shipwreck survival Wetherell | |
| Adventures of Thomas Williams [The] | Williams, Thomas | Brentford Printing & Publishing Co Ltd | St Ives Cornwall napoleonic France Devon prison privateer Williams | |
| Adventures on the Great Lakes | Adventures on the Great Lakes | Coles | Great Lakes Canada US canal Niagara shipwreck statistics resue casualty ice weather | |
| Adventures under sail | Tilman, H W | Victor Gollancz | 0-586-06166-5 | Mischief Patagonia Greenland Montevideo Deception Island Sea Breeze Baroque Spitzbergen Greenland |
| Adventures with Shipwrecks | Loney, J K | Eric the Red W B Godfrey Speculant Woolamai Casino City of Rayville Black Witch barque barquentine brig brigantine schooner Australia | ||
| Adventurous life | Mountevans, Lord | Hutchinson | navy WW2 destroyer Scott battlecruiser cruiser | |
| Aegean [The] | Denham, H M | John Murray | 0-7195-3675-8 | Aegean Cuclades Dodecanese Santorina pilotage cruising yacht Athens anchorage port Dardanelles Gallipolli Bosporus Mediterranean |
| Aegean Adventures 1940-43 | Parish, Michael Woodbine | Book Guild | 0-86332-788-5 | WW2 navy Aegean Crete Mediterranean Jerusalem PoW mining |
| Aero-Hydrodynamics of Sailing | Marchaj, C A | Adlard Coles Nautical | 0-7136-5073-7 | yacht design keel hull stability aerofoil hydrofoil Reynolds performance |
| Aesthetic Aspects of Ship and Yacht Design | Guiton, J | Adlard Coles | 0-229-97487-2 | yacht design shipbuilding lines deckplan |
| AEU Trade Manual 1963-64 | AEU Trade Manual | Amalgamated Engineering Union | manual tables gears wire insulation tools welding gas temperature | |
| Affair With the Sea [An] | Richards, James | Leslie Frewin | 0-85632-067-6 | Mediterranean Lalaguh Anzio Aegean Adriatic |
| Afloat and Ashore 1 2002/2003 | Morgan, Tom | On Board Publications | 0-9541900-1-7 | NT coastwatch Cornwall Devon pilotage Tamar marina Lyner guide Penryn Truro coastguard radio |
| Afloat and Ashore 2 2002/2003 | Morgan, Tom | On Board Publications | 0-9541900-2-5 | NT coastwatch Cornwall Devon pilotage Tamar marina Lyner guide Penryn Truro coastguard radio |
| Afloat and Ashore 2 Plymouth Salcombe River Yealm and Looe | Morgan, Tom | On Board Publications | 0-9541900-2-5 | |
| Africa General Service Medal [The] | Africa General Service Medal | Naval & Military Press | bar multibar Gambia Aro Jubaland Somaliland Jidbali Nigeria despatches | |
| African Keyport | Pearson, Tony | Accucut Books | 0-620-19494-4 | history construction harbour engineers port captains Natal South Africa shipping plans charts |
| Afridi to Nizam British Fleet Destroyers 1937-43 | English, John | World Ship Society | 0-905617-95-0 | builders armament price deployment loss damage WW2 |
| After 50000 Miles | Roth, Hal | Stanford Maritime | 0-540-07170-6 | yacht rigging steering anchor refrigeration engine dinghy weather tactics tables California ocean design sail |
| After 70 years | After 70 years | Wezata & Adolf Bratt & Co | Sweden WW2 barge coal ore insurance shipbuilding engineer | |
| After the Storm | Rousmaniere, John | International Marine/McGraw-Hill | 0-07-137795-6 | shipwreck derelicts salvage mariners trauma stress Ariel Shelley Fuller SmeetonElizabethThe Yankee Gale Calliope Portland Hamrah Pollux Mary Celeste First Draft Ames Bangs Blanchard WW1 WW2 |
| After You Columbus | Mielche, Hakon | William Hodge | yacht cruising Denmark Columbus Cuba Caribbean | |
| Against All Odds | Gallagher, Thomas | Macdonald | 356-03591-3 | WW2 Aitken Cameron Goddard Kendall Lorimer Meyer Raaby Place Kaafjord Norway X-craft Sea Nymph Sharnhorst Bonaventure Lutzow Stubborn |
| Against the Flow | Caffari, Dee | A & C Black | 978-07136-8441-4 | yacht racing solo circumnavigation Caffari |
| Against Wind and Weather | Drushka, Ken | Douglas & McIntyre | 0-88894-327-X | Canada British Columbia towboat barge lighthouse Puget paddlesteamer timber |
| Age d’Or de la Voile [L’] | Lacroix, Louis | Horizons de France | France company crew passengers tea Alaska Erikson captains crew | |
| Age of Sail [The] Vol 1 | Age of Sail | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-925-5 | sail Nelson exploration trade Canada dockyard |
| Age of Sail [The] Vol 2 | Age of Sail | John Lee/Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-949-2 | sail Nelson navy Rodney Australia White Star archaeology |
| Age of the Galley [The] | Age of the Galley | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-955-7 | galley Mediterranean Aegean trireme Roman Byzantium Greece |
| Age of the Galley [The] | Age of the Galley | Conway Maritime | 0-85177-634-5 | history Roman Byzantine Islamic galley fleet merchant oar medieval warfare archaeology trireme hull construction Mediterranean mechanics power rowing |
| Aids to Navigation | Aids to Navigation | light lightship lifebuoys radar solar | ||
| Aids to Stability | Owen, H | James Brown & Son | draught displacement co-efficient of fineness deadweight density specific gravity equilibrium buoyancy metacentre trim cargo ballast | |
| Ainsleys Examiner in Seamanship | Ainsley, Thomas L | Thomas Ainsley | seamanship textbook rules signal | |
| Air Battle of Malta [The] | Ministry of Information | HMSO | aircraft Malta WW2 RAF battle Italy Luftwaffe convoy Rommel blitz airfield | |
| Air Day | Air Day | Fleet Air Arm FAA RN Culdrose aircraft helicopter | ||
| Air Sea Rescue | Ministry of Information | HMSO | RAF aircraft WW2 ASR air sea rescue | |
| Aircraft Carrier Story [The] | Robbins, Guy | Cassell | 0-304-35308-6 | airarm carrier |
| Aircraft Carrier Victorious [The] | Watton, Ross | Conway Maritime Press | 0-85177-580-2 | navy carrier model deckplan Victorious |
| Aircraft Carriers | Brown, David | Macdonald and Jane’s | 0-354-01008-5 | Bearn Graf Zeppelin Aquila Japan ArgusHMS EagleHMS HermesHMS FuriousHMS Ark Royal HMS IndomitableHMS UnicornHMS LangleyUSS RangerUSS WaspUSS |
| Aircraft Carriers | MacIntyre, Donald | Ballantine Books | WW1 WW2 carrier air arm airplane aeroplane Atlantic Pacific Mediterranean Tirpitz torpedo plane | |
| Aircraft Carriers | Polmar, Norman | Macdonald | 356-02805-4 | carrier warloss WW1 WW2 convoy Malta battle Japan USN |
| Aircraft Carriers | Preston, Antony | Bison Books | 0-86124-197-5 | WW1 World War One WW2 World War Two Coral Sea Japanese USA Pearl Harbour |
| Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914 to the Present | Chesneau, Roger | Arms and Armour | 1-86019-87-5-9 | WW1 WW2 aircraft carrier |
| Aircraft For the Navy | Bowyer, Michael J F | Patrick Stephens Ltd | 1-85260-427-1 | bomber Avro Lancaster Mosquito Stirling Mallard Dakota Mustang Hawker |