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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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