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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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28 September 2004