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| 110k | Lenah H. Sutcliffe 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 |
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| 58k | Undated, location unknown. | Craig Chaddock |
| 30k | Undated, location unknown. | Robert Hurst |
| 34k | March 19 1945, location unknown. | Robert Hurst |
| 97k | Standing in the bull nose, Tokyo Bay 1945. | - |
| 92k | January 1946, her first birthday. | - |
| 116k | Circa 1945 colorized photo. | - |
| 63k | 1946 newspaper clipping about the collision with the USS Frank Knox (DD-742). | Unknown |
| 79k | Navy Photo 3085-46, stern view of USS Higbee (DD 806) off Mare Island on 27 Aug 1946. | Darryl Baker |
| 71k | Navy Photo 3087-46, broadside view of USS Higbee (DD 806) off Mare Island on 27 Aug 1946. Higbee was in overhaul at the yard from 26 June to 12 September 1946. | Darryl Baker |
| 76k | Navy Photo 3089-46, bow on view of USS Higbee (DD 806) off Mare Island on 27 Aug 1946. | Darryl Baker |
| 107k | September 1946, Mare Island. | Pieter Bakels |
| 112k | September 3 1946, Mare Island. | Pieter Bakels |
| 115k | Navy Photo 9816-7-51, the USS Higbee (DD 806) off the South end of Mare Island on 6 July 1951. | Darryl Baker |
| 122k | Navy Photo 9818-7-51, the USS Higbee (DD 806) off Mare Island on 6 July 1951. She was in overhaul at the yard from 29 March to 6 July 1951. | Darryl Baker |
| 89k | Navy Photo 9823-7-51, aft plan view of USS Shelton (DD 790) with USS Higbee (DD 806) inboard at Mare Island on 6 July 1951. Shelton was in overhaul at the yard from 38 March to 6 July 1951. | Darryl Baker |
| 111k | USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37) providing tender services to four destroyers, May 1969, probably in Subic Bay, Philippines. Ships alongside are (left to right): USS Higbee (DD-806); USS Douglas H. Fox (DD-779); USS Robison (DDG-12) and USS Leary (DD-879). Photographed by PH3 Stephen L. Howk. Official U.S. Navy Photograph. | Fred Weiss |
| 94k | May 2 1970 in the Pacific. Higbee was the first U.S. warship named for a female member of the Naval service (Chief Nurse Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee, second Superintendent of the Nurse Corps). | Fabio Peña |
| 34k | Esquimalt, British Columbia September 1978. | Marc Piché |
| 49k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski |
| 43k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski |
