USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) is a United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer, the 73rd overall for the class. She is named for Chief Nurse Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (1874–1941), a pioneering Navy nurse who served as Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps during World War I.[6]

Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee after the christening ceremony on 24 April 2021
History
United States
Name	Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee
Namesake	Lenah Higbee
Awarded	3 June 2013
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down	14 November 2017[1]
Launched	27 January 2020
Sponsored by	Louisa Dixon Virginia Munford Rolanda Pickett Wilson[2]
Christened	24 April 2021[3]
Identification	Hull number: DDG-123
Motto	Bellatrix illa, "She is a Warrior"[4]
Status	Fitting out
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General characteristics
Class and type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,217 tons (full load)[5]
Length	513 ft (156 m)[5]
Beam	66 ft (20 m)[5]
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)[5]
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)[5]
Complement	380 officers and enlisted
Armament	1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/54 caliber Mk 45 naval gun 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 Autocannons 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes for Mk 46 torpedo 96-cell Mk 41 VLS for use of: RIM-66M Standard Missile BGM-109 Tomahawk RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC
Aircraft carried	2 × SH-60 Seahawk helicopters
Aviation facilities	Double hangar and helipad

Ingalls Shipbuilding was awarded the contract for Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee in June 2013, and began fabrication of the vessel in January 2017.[7] The ship's keel was laid in a ceremony at the Ingalls shipyards on 14 November 2017.[2] She was christened on 24 April 2021 in Pascagoula, Mississippi.[3]

See also

• USS Higbee, another ship named for Lenah Higbee.

References

• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

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