The Navy will commission the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) on May 13 at 9 a.m. (CDT) in Key West, Fla.
Rear Admiral Cynthia Kuehner, director of the Navy Nurse Corps, will deliver the principal address. Kari Wilkinson, president of HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss. will be among speakers.
[The ceremony will be live streamed at: https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/31425. The link becomes active about 10 minutes prior to the event (8:50 a.m. CDT).]
The ship's namesake, Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, served as the second Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1911 and was the first woman recipient of the Navy Cross.
She entered naval service in 1908 and was among the first 20 women (known as the “Sacred Twenty”) to join the newly established Navy Nurse Corps and contributed her nursing skills during WWI.
“I am confident that the crew who will sail USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee will continue to honor and embody her trailblazing legacy,” said Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro.
The ship will be the 72nd Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be commissioned, with 17 additional ships currently under contract for the DDG 51 program at HII-Pascagoula. (US Navy 05/12/23)
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