Complex sentence: A few years after the steamer "Metis" crashed off Watch Hill in 1872 killing 130 people, a U.S. Life Saving Service Station was built next to the lighthouse where it operated until the 1940s and destroyed in 1963.
Split into simpler sentences: A few years after the steamer "Metis" crashed off Watch Hill in 1872 killing 130 people. A United States Life-Saving Service station was built next to the lighthouse where it operated until the 1940s and was destroyed in 1963.