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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