USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), lead ship of the class. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name: | USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee |
Namesake: | Lenah Higbee |
Awarded: | 3 June 2013 |
Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Status: | Authorized |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 9,200 long tons (9,300 t) |
Length: | 510 ft (160 m) |
Draft: | 33 ft (10 m) |
Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
Complement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
Armament: |
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Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
Aviation facilities: | Flight deck, Hangar bay |
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.[1]
Ingalls Shipbuilding was awarded the contract for Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee in June 2013, and began fabrication of the vessel in January 2017.[2]
See also
- USS Higbee, another ship named for Lenah Higbee.
References
- ↑ "Mabus Names Arleigh Burke Destroyer After Higbee, First Woman Awarded Navy Cross".
- ↑ "Ingalls starts fabrication of DDG 123". Marine Log. January 27, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
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