Photographic History of the United States Navy
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| 110k | Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, on 18 May 1874. She completed nurses' training at the New York Postgraduate Hospital in 1899 and entered private practice soon thereafter. In October 1908, she joined the newly-established U.S. Navy Nurse Corps as one of its first twenty members and was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1909. In January 1911, Mrs. Higbee (she was the widow of Lieutenant Colonel John Henley Higbee, USMC) became the second Superintendent of the Nurse Corps. For her achievements in leading the Corps through the First World War, Chief Nurse Higbee was awarded the Navy Cross, the first woman to receive that medal. She retired from the Navy in November 1922. Chief Nurse Lenah H. Higbee died at Winter Park, Florida, on 10 January 1941. Photo #: 80-G-1037198. Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee, (NC) USN, portrait photograph, taken in uniform during the World War I era. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. | Bill Gonyo | |
| USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) |
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| 61k | Poster for the Higbee. | Ron Reeves | |
| 335k | Poster for the Higbee. | Stephen P. Carlson, Preservation Specialist, National Parks of Boston | |
| 166k | Paul Bosarge, a steel fabrication burner at Ingalls Shipbuilding, presses the button to start fabrication of the Ingalls-built destroyer Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123). Bosarge has worked at Ingalls for 39 years. HII photo by Lance Davis. | Ron Reeves | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | CDR Douglas Alexander Brayton (USNA 2004) | 13 May 2023 - 09 November 2023 |
| 01 | CDR James Giles | 09 November 2023 - present |
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