Namesake Lenah Higbee Status Authorized Builder Ingalls Shipbuilding | Awarded 3 June 2013 Length 155 m | |
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Name USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee Class and type Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Displacement 9,200 long tons (9,300 t) | ||
USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) is a planned United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer, the 73rd overall for the class. She will be 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.
Ingalls Shipbuilding was awarded the contract for Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee in June 2013, and began fabrication of the vessel in January 2017.
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