HII delivers DDG 123 to Navy

 PASCAGOULA, Miss. - HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division delivered the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) to the Navy on Nov. 30. Delivery represents the official transfer of the ship from HII to the Navy. DDG 123 is the 34^th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Ingalls has delivered. It is the final Flight IIA ship to be built at Ingalls as the Navy transitions to Flight III destroyers. Ingalls currently has in production the future Arleigh Burke-class Flight III destroyers Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), Ted Stevens (DDG 128), Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129) and George M. Neal (DDG 131). DDG 123 is named to honor Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, a Navy nurse and first woman to receive the Navy Cross for her heroic actions during WWI. She wzs part of the newly established Navy Nurse Corps, a group of women who would become known as “The Sacred Twenty.” in 1908. (HII 11/30/22)