The Amazon 1908. The Amazon can still be seen today on the Magam Sands at low water by the South Breakwater of the DWH at Port Talbot,She was bound for Iquique with a cargo of 2,000 tons of Welsh coal,she was a 2,062 ton Barque built in 1886 by Barclay Curle & co. She had a crew of 28 but on the 1st of September 1908 she was driven ashore in a gale and only 8 of the crew made it ashore alive.The Master was Captain Carrick who also lost his life on that fateful night. Efforts were made by the Port Talbot L.S.A. team to save the crew they were the fore runners of todays team.
