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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 | |
| 77k | Undated, location unknown. | - | |
| 122k | Undated, location unknown. | - | |
| 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 | Stern view of USS Higbee (DD 806) off Mare Island on 27 Aug 1946. | Darryl Baker | |
| 71k | 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 | 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 | |
| 150k | September 3 1946 at Mare Island. | Ed Zajkowski | |
| 115k | The USS Higbee (DD 806) off the South end of Mare Island on 6 July 1951. | Darryl Baker | |
| 122k | 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 | 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 | |
 Welcome Aboard pamphlet - circa 1973 | Wolfgang Hechler | |||
| 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 | |
| 226k | Higbee's Mount 52, destroyed by a North Vietnamese bomb in 1972. | Ty Martin | |
| 235k | May 15 1972 in AFDM-6 after being hit with a 250 pound dropped by a North Vietnamese MIG, photo by PH2 D. Cunningham (NPC 1152696). | Ed Zajkowski | |
| 176k | February 19 1974 at San Diego, USS George K. MacKenzie (DD-836) with USS Higbee (DD-806) outboard. Photo by PH1 A. J. Dooley. | Ed Zajkowski | |
| 34k | Esquimalt, British Columbia September 1978. | Marc Piché | |
| 49k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 43k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
CDR Lindsey Williamson Jan 27 1945 - Sep 5 1946 CDR B. Z. Carr Sep 5 1946 - Jun 19 1948 CDR James Richard Hansen Jun 19 1948 - Feb 18 1950 CDR Ernest Moore Feb 18 1950 - Sep 1 1951 CDR Verner Jensen Soballe Sep 1 1951 - Sep 18 1953 CDR Maurice Herbert Rindskopf Sep 18 1953 - May 27 1955 (later RADM) CDR William Richard Kurtz May 27 1955 - Jun 11 1956 CDR Ray Herbert Miller Jun 11 1956 - May 12 1958 CDR Ernest Edward Hollyfield Jr. May 12 1958 - Oct 16 1959 CDR Kenith Visen Lindstrom Oct 16 1959 - Sep 23 1961 CDR Nathaniel Thomas Henley Sep 23 1961 - Apr 4 1963 LCDR Thomas J. Sullivan Apr 4 1963 - Oct 11 1963 CDR John James Herzog Oct 11 1963 - May 14 1965 CDR Floyd Coleman Searl May 14 1965 - Oct 7 1966 CDR Albert Francis Shimmel Oct 7 1966 - Dec 20 1968 CDR John Dunn Stanard Jr. Dec 20 1968 - May 13 1970 CDR Tyrone Gabriel Martin May 13 1970 - Jan 4 1972 CDR Ronald Robert Zuilkoski Jan 4 1972 - Oct 5 1973 CDR Joe Duke Edwards Oct 5 1973 - Sep 6 1974 CDR Leslie E. Ryan Sep 6 1974 - Oct 15 1976 CDR Charles Robe Schlegelmilch Oct 15 1976 - Apr 14 1978 CDR Peter Wolcott Soverel Apr 14 1978 - Jul 15 1979
The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
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