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Photo #: NH 43075

USS Ophir
(ID # 2800)

Officers pose with a life raft atop the ship's burned-out midships superstructure. Ophir sank off Gibraltar on 11 November 1918, after being gutted by fire and explosions. She 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.

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28 September 2004