East Beach Station
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Coordinates: 31°8.746′N 81°22.402′W / 31.145767°N 81.373367°W
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East Beach Station is a station of the U.S. Coast Guard in St. Simons, Georgia. It was built in 1933 as a part of the Works Progress Administration initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Coast Guard Station played a part in World War II when it helped save the passengers of two merchant ships, the SS Oklahoma and the Esso Baton Rouge. These two ships were torpedoed by a German submarine U-123. The station is one of the forty five originally built by President Roosevelt, and is one of the few that has survived to this day. It is now a museum.
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