Photo #: NH 43073
USS Ophir (ID # 2800)
View of the ship's burned-out after superstructure, the result
of fire and explosions on board while she was off Gibraltar in
November 1918. She sank on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, was
salvaged during the following year, and returned to the United
States on 9 January 1920.
Photographed by A.E. Wells, Washington, D.C., on 12 January 1920.
Note the capstan in the foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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