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USS LENAH SUTCLIFFE HIGBEE is one of the ARLEIGH BURKE Flight IIA guided missile destroyers and the second ship in the Navy named after Chief Nurse Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee.
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: June 3, 2013 |
| Keel laid: November 14, 2017 | |
| Launched: January 27, 2020 | |
| Commissioned: May 13, 2023 | |
| Builder: Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations, Pascagoula, Miss. | |
| Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines | |
| Propellers: two | |
| Length: 508,5 feet (155 meters) | |
| Beam: 67 feet (20.4 meters) | |
| Draft: 30.5 feet (9.3 meters) | |
| Displacement: approx. 9,200 tons full load | |
| Speed: 32 knots | |
| Aircraft: two | |
| Armament: one | |
| Homeport: San Diego, Calif. | |
| Crew: approx. 320 |
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This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS LENAH SUTCLIFFE HIGBEE. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.
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Lenah S. Higbee, the first woman to receive the Navy Cross while still living, was born 18 May 1874 in Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada. After completing nurses' training at New York Postgraduate Hospital in 1899 and further training at Fordham Hospital, she engaged in private practice until entering the US Navy Nurse Corps 1 October 1908. Widow of the late Lieutenant Colonel John Henley Higbee, USMC, Mrs. Higbee became Chief Nurse 14 April 1909 and second commandant of the Nurse Corps 20 January 1911. For her World War I service she received the Navy Cross 11 November 1920. Mrs. Higbee retired from the Nurse Corps 30 November 1922 and died 10 January 1941 at Winter Park, Fla. She is buried beside her husband at Arlington National Cemetery.
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The photo below was taken by Michael Jenning and shows the LENAH SUTCLIFFE HIGBEE under construction at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations, Pascagoula, Miss., on October 17, 2019.
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The photo below was taken by Hinrich N. and shows PCU LENAH SUTCLIFFE HIGBEE preparing for commissioning at Key West, Fla, on May 7, 2023.
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