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Ophir (ID 2800)

Ophir served both the U. S. Navy and the Army.

Cargo Ship: Built in 1904 by Kon. Masts de Sehelde, Flushing, The Netherlands; Acquired by the Navy 21 March 1918; Commissioned 25 March 1918; Transferred to the War Department 16 January 1920. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 8,905 t.; Length 406' 6"; Beam 47 1"'; Draft 25' 10"; Speed 15 kts.; Complement 67; Armament one 6" and one 4".


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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships History: Ophir (ID-2800), built by Kon. Masts de Sehelde, Flushing, The Netherlands, in 1904, operated by the Rotterdamsehe Lloyd Line, and seized at Pearl Harbor by U. S. Customs officials under the authority of the Presidential Proclamation of 20 March 1918, was turned over to the Navy 21 March 1918 and commissioned 25 March 1918, Lt. Comdr. M. P. Nash, USNRF, in command.

Ophir, a freight and passenger liner, sailed from Pearl Harbor 2 April on her marden voyage as a NOTS ship. On 14 May she arrived at New York, whence she continued on to La Pallice, France. Arriving 5 June, she sailed to Verdun on the 27th, thence steamed back to New York. During the next three months, she completed two more round-trip crossings between New York and the Atlantic/English Channel coast of France. On 25 October she set out for Gibraltar and the ports of southern France. Arriving at the former on the 8th, she was underway for Marseilles when an internal explosion and subsequent fire brought her back to Gibraltar where she burned, 11 November. The fire cost the lives of two of her crew and totally destroyed her Army cargo. She was repaired at Gibraltar and on 25 November 1919 set out for the United States. Returning to the east coast in early January 1920, she was turned over to the War Department, at Norfolk, 16 January 1920.


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