List of shipwrecks in the 15th century

1405

• Unnamed ship: Wrecked on the Eddystone, her mast was found at Rame Head and sold by the Duchy of Cornwall in Plymouth.

1406

• Sancta Maria et Sanctus Nicholaus (Catalonia): A carrack was stranded near Portsmouth during a storm. She was broken up and her cargo of spices, alum, wine, fruit, grain and other goods stolen by local people.[1]

1408

• Corentin (France): The carrack was stranded in the Bay of Biscay, near Fromentine, France during a storm.[2]

1412

4 February (first report) — Unknown ( Kingdom of England): Henry V's carrack carrying wine from Aquitaine was wrecked on or near the Isle of Wight during a storm, which may be the same storm as the following vessel at Southampton.[3]

12 February (first report) — Unknown (Genoa): Wrecked in a storm when departing Southampton. Sometimes recorded as Stephanus Columbilus which may be a version of the masters name.[4]

1416

• August or September — Unidentified: An Italian or French carrack foundered off Southampton with eight hundred troops on board.[5]

1419

• Agase ( Kingdom of England): An Italian carrack was stranded in mudflats either shortly after being captured, or off Southampton quay in a storm.[6]

1425

• (first report) — Mochechawde (Spain): Enquiry held at Poole, Dorset after a ship registered in Gijón, and carrying a cargo of wine, was wrecked near Swanage.[7]

1428

• 12 December (first report) — Seintmarie de Portaferro (Portugal): The Lisbon ship was captured by English pirates and wrecked near Southampton. Her goods owned by Afonso Rico and other merchants were plundered. Also recorded as Santa Maria de Portaferro.[8]

1430

• 1 March (first report) — Unidentified (Genoa): Enquiry by Thomas Arundell and James Chiddelegh into the plunder of a carrack, owned by merchants of Genoa who lived in England, when it was lost near the sound (portus) of Plymouth.[9]

Unknown date

• Holigost ( Royal Navy): The carrack sank in the River Hamble after 1422.

1435

• 6 February (first report) — an unknown number of hulks were lost near Southampton.[10] All of the ships involved appear to have been Flemish from either Bruges or Amsterdam[11]

1439

• Grace Dieu ( Kingdom of England): Hit by a lightning strike and burnt to the waterline while laid up in the River Hamble, Hampshire.[12]

1468

• Raphael (or Raphaell) ( Kingdom of England): Lost in Bude Bay, Cornwall while heading for her home port of Bristol from Danzig.[13]
• Unnamed vessel ( Portugal): The ship sank at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. Remains discovered in 2002 and under reconstruction as a museum exhibit as of January 2020.[14]
• 20 November — Hanneke Vrome ( Lübeck): Wrecked near the island of Jussarö in Raseborg, Finland on her way from Lübeck to Tallinn.[15]

1478

• 9 December — La Kateryne (probably County of Flanders): Wrecked near St Michael's Mount, Cornwall. She had left Spain with a cargo of textiles, iron, wax and other goods.[7][16] Nine Spanish, late medieval gold coins found at Praa Sands by metal detector could be from this wreck.[17]

1480

• December — Unnamed: Four ships carrying almost 1,000 tons of wine lost in Mount's Bay, Cornwall.[18]

1483

• Unknown date— A carrick (Spain) sank off Sandwich, Kent, England.[19]

1484

• 15 October — many ships in Kingrode sank in a storm described as the "greatest wind that ever was heard of, which caused a great flood in most part of the land from Bristol to the Mownt and many other places".
• 15 October — Anthony ( Kingdom of England): Wrecked (set alond) at Holow Backes (or bakkes), Bristol.[20]
• 15 October — Unidentified (Bilbao): Wrecked (set alond) at Holow Backes (or bakkes), Bristol.[21]

1488

• (first report) — Anthony or Anthony Margaret ( Kingdom of England: A great ship lost in Hungrode, her home port of Bristol, by default of the master, or lost at Kingrode by default of the master.[22][23] See 1484 above.

1492

• 25 December — Santa Maria ( Spain): The largest of three ships use by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage across the Atlantic, Santa Maria ran aground off the present-day site of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.[24]

1495

• late October — Unnamed : Three ships sank and all the crews lost when a hurricane struck the harbour at La Isabela, Hispaniola.[25]
• Summer — Gribshunden ( Denmark): Caught fire and sank off Ronneby, Sweden.[26]

1499

• January — São Rafael ( Portugal): Part of Vasco da Gama's expedition to India, São Rafael was burnt and scuttled in Malindi, Kenya due to the crew suffering from scurvy.[27]

1500

• late July — Unnamed (Spain): Two caravels sank, along with their crews near Crooked Island, Bahamas during a hurricane. The caravels were part of an expedition led by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón.[28]
• (first report) — Unidentified (English or Spanish): Wrecked near Handfast Point, Dorset with a cargo of pottery.[7]
• (first report) — Unidentified: Sailing ship wrecked on Lundy, known as the Gull Rock wreck and protected under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.[29] Evidence for the wreck include a wrought iron gun, stone shot and two wrought iron breechblock and may be a Genoese carrack wrecked in 1418.[30]

• Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
• Archaeology of shipwrecks
• List of designations under the Protection of Wrecks Act