Where To Find The Wreck Of The AMAZON - Margam Sands, South Wales

Shipwrecks of South Wales. The Amazon was a 4 masted barque which ran aground during a severe gale on Margam Sands near Port Talbot on 1st September 1908.

The ship had just set off from Port Talbot with a cargo of coal bound for Chile South America when it ran into a severe south-westerly gale in Swansea Bay. It tried to seek shelter by Mumbles but was driven back across the bay to Margam Sands

Although close to the beach, the waves started to break up the wreck. Some of the crew tried to swim to the shore but 20 of the 28 crew lost their lives.

There isn’t easy access as it lies on Margam Sands near the harbour alongside the Port Talbot Steel Works. I parked at Maudlam Church and walked over the dunes to the beach then along Margam Sands, it was just over a 5-mile walk.

To see the wreck you have to visit at low tide, so check the tide times.

There are other wrecks nearby - there’s an old Cromwell tank and remains of a Mulberry Harbour which is leftover from WWII when they were practising The D-Day landings.

‘Where To Find The Wreck Of The Amazon - Margam Sands, Port Talbot, South Wales’ - Filmed June 2020


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