The U.S. Life-Saving Service was founded in 1848 and became the modern U.S. Coast Guard in 1915. Built in 1886, U.S. Life-Saving Station 30 was one of 42 stations established along the New Jersey coast and was also known as Beazley's Station. Significant for transportation, maritime heritage, and architecture, it served a coast with some of the nation's heaviest coastal traffic, warning ships of dangers and rescuing crews in peril. In 1901, the 329-foot bark Sindia ran aground at 17th Street, and its crew was rescued by this service. After closing in 1936, the station reopened in the spring of 1941 under the U.S. Coast Guard to house men of the mounted patrol, and during World War II it patrolled the beach for German submarines and saboteurs. After the war, it closed in 1945 and was sold for use as a private residence until 2009, when the City of Ocean City purchased it. Now used as a living history museum, it is the only surviving life-saving station of its kind, was designed by architect James Lake Parkinson, and was listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places on April 8, 2013, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 14, 2013.