List of shipwrecks of Cornwall

Around a coast of approximately 250 miles (400 km) an estimated 6000 ships have been wrecked, more than on any other comparable coastline of the British Isles.

[1] A traditional saying about the north coast is "From Pentire Point to Hartland light, A watery grave by day and night.

In 1621 Sir John Killigrew reported “... a certificate of ye losse of 25 ships there and thereabouts within this dozen or twente years besides a great numbre of others whose ruines lye neare those rocks and cliffs, not knowne of whome or what they weare.”[30] 2021 • 11 August - Fishing vessel Fredwood MT338 of Maryport, Scotland.

2023 •14 February 2023 - Belgian registered 24 meter beam trawler “Sylvia Marie Z-525” hit rocks and sank off Porthgwarra around 1800 hours, local time.

The crew made a distress call before taking to the life raft and were later rescued by Sennen Lifeboat.