USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee

	USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee on 8 May 2023
History
United States
Name	Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee
Namesake	Lenah Higbee
Awarded	3 June 2013
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down	14 November 2017
Launched	27 January 2020
Sponsored by	Louisa Dixon; Virginia Munford; Rolanda Pickett Wilson;
Christened	24 April 2021
Acquired	30 November 2022
Commissioned	13 May 2023
Home port	San Diego
Identification	Hull number: DDG-123
Motto	Bellatrix illa, "She Is a Warrior"
Status	in active service
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General characteristics
Class & type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,217 tons (full load)
Length	513 ft (156 m)
Beam	66 ft (20 m)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Complement	380 officers and enlisted
Armament	Guns:; 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk 45 Mod 4 (lightweight gun); 1 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Phalanx CIWS; 2 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Mk 38 machine gun system; 4 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) caliber guns; Missiles:; 1 × 32-cell, 1 × 64-cell (96 total cells) Mk 41 vertical launching system (VLS):; RIM-66M surface-to-air missile; RIM-156 surface-to-air missile; RIM-174A Standard ERAM; RIM-161 anti-ballistic missile; RIM-162 ESSM (quad-packed); BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile; RUM-139 vertical launch ASROC; Torpedoes:; 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes:; Mark 46 lightweight torpedo; Mark 50 lightweight torpedo; Mark 54 lightweight torpedo;
Aircraft carried	2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters
Aviation facilities	Double hangar and helipad

USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight IIA) Aegis guided missile destroyer. She is named for Chief Nurse Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (1874–1941). Sutcliffe Higbee was a pioneering Navy nurse who served as Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps during World War I and the first woman to be awarded the Navy Cross.