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USS LENAH SUTCLIFFE HIGBEE (DDG-123)

CLASS - BURKE FLIGHT IIA As Built.

Operational and Building Data
Built by Huntngton Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, MS (YN 5323)
Contract awarded 03 June 2013
Named by SecNav 14 June 2016
Keel laid 06 November 2017
Launched 27 January 2020
Christened 24 April 2021
Commissioned at Key West, FL, 13 May 2023
Homeported at San Diego, CA

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Higbee 110kLenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, on 18 May 1874. She completed nurses' training at the New York Postgraduate Hospital in 1899 and entered private practice soon thereafter. In October 1908, she joined the newly-established U.S. Navy Nurse Corps as one of its first twenty members and was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1909. In January 1911, Mrs. Higbee (she was the widow of Lieutenant Colonel John Henley Higbee, USMC) became the second Superintendent of the Nurse Corps. For her achievements in leading the Corps through the First World War, Chief Nurse Higbee was awarded the Navy Cross, the first woman to receive that medal. She retired from the Navy in November 1922. Chief Nurse Lenah H. Higbee died at Winter Park, Florida, on 10 January 1941. Photo #: 80-G-1037198. Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee, (NC) USN, portrait photograph, taken in uniform during the World War I era. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Bill Gonyo
USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123)
Higbee 61kPoster for the Higbee.Ron Reeves
Higbee 335kPoster for the Higbee.Stephen P. Carlson, Preservation Specialist, National Parks of Boston
Petersen 166kPaul Bosarge, a steel fabrication burner at Ingalls Shipbuilding, presses the button to start fabrication of the Ingalls-built destroyer Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123). Bosarge has worked at Ingalls for 39 years.
HII photo by Lance Davis.
Ron Reeves


USS LENAH SUTCLIFFE HIGBEE DDG 123 History
Note: History is unavailable at this time
This ship was built too late to be covered by the DANFS project

Commanding Officers
01CDR Douglas A. Brayton (USNA 2004)13 May 2023 - present

Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler

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