The harbour at Mullion Cove was completed in 1895 and financed by Lord Robartes of Lanhydrock as a recompense to the fishermen for several disastrous pilchard seasons. It is protected from southerly winter gales by two sea walls and Mullion Island, half a mile offshore. The old pilchard cellar and net store are preserved. Mullion Harbour, along with Mullion Island, was donated to the National Trust in 1945.
The area has been subject to much smuggling activity. In 1801, the King's Pardon was offered to any smuggler giving information on the Mullion musket-men involved in a gunfight with the crew of HM Gun Vessel Hecate. Mullion Cove had a lifeboat station from 1867 until 1909. On her first launch the Daniel J Draper help save three lives from the Achilles which was wrecked at Pollurian. In the six years up to 1873 there were nine wrecks along a mile-and-a-half stretch of coastline under Mullion cliffs.
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