The Navy will christen its newest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the future USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123), during a 6:30 p.m. CDT ceremony Saturday, April 24, in Pascagoula, Miss. The ship's namesake, Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, served as the second Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1911, and was also the first living woman recipient of the Navy Cross. When she entered naval service in 1908, she was one of the first 20 women, known as the “Sacred Twenty,” to join the newly established Navy Nurse Corps and contributed her nursing skills to the Navy during WWI. The Honorable Ray Mabus, 75th Secretary of the Navy, will deliver the christening ceremony's principal address. Mabus is also the former governor of Mississippui. (Source: DoD 04/23/21) NNavy to Christen Guided-Missile Destroyer Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Release
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