LENAH SUTCLIFFE HIGBEE DDG 123

Ship Name and Designation History

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Arleigh Burke Class (Flight IIA) Guided Missile Destroyer Naming Ceremony 14 June 2016 - Building starts 27 January 2017 Keel Laid 14 November 2017 - Launched 27 January 2020 Christened 24 April 2021 - Acceptance Trials completed 6 October 2022 USS LENAH SUTCLIFFE HIGBEE DDG-123 Commissioned 13 May 2023

"SHE IS A WARRIOR"

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1. USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee DDG-123 Covers Page 1     (2017-2023)

 

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Locy Type FDC 11-2n (USS, FPO AP 96694)

2023-05-13

Commissioning. Error cancel, there is no "H" in the ships name. Courtesy of the Bob Govern collection.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (May 18, 1874 – January 10, 1941)
    Higbee was a pioneering Canadian-born United States Navy chief nurse. In October 1908, Higbee joined the newly established U.S. Navy Nurse Corps as one of its first twenty members. She was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1909. Lenah Higbee became chief nurse at Norfolk Naval Hospital in April 1909. In January 1911, Higbee (she was the widow of Lieutenant Colonel John Henley Higbee, USMC) became the second Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps. For her achievements in leading the Nurses Corps through the First World War, Chief Nurse Higbee was awarded the Navy Cross, the first (and only) living woman to receive that medal. She resigned from the position of Superintendent and retired from the Navy on 23 November 1922.
    Along with the Navy Cross, Higbee also earned the Distinguished Service Medal and the WWI Victory Medal.

Two ships of the US Navy have been named in her honor - USS Higbee DD-806 and USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee DDG-123.

The ship's sponsors are Louisa Dixon, Virginia Munford, and Rolanda Pickett Wilson.

 

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