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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99597

USS Ophir
(ID # 2800)

View of the ship's port bow, taken while she was afire at Gibraltar in November 1918.
Ophir caught fire and burned for three days before sinking on 11 November 1918.
The original photo caption reads "One Who Will Never Return". In fact, Ophir was salvaged in 1919 and returned to the United States in January 1920.
Note that she was painted in pattern camouflage at the time of the fire.

Collection of George K. Beach.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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28 September 2004