USS Higbee
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Not to be confused with USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee.
USS Higbee (DD/DDR-806) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first U.S. warship named for a female member of the U.S. Navy,[1][2] being named for Chief Nurse Lenah S. Higbee (1874–1941), a pioneering Navy nurse who served as Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps during World War I.
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USS Higbee (DDR-806) being refueled by USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14), in 1960 | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Higbee |
Namesake | Lenah Higbee |
Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, U.S. |
Laid down | 26 June 1944 |
Launched | 13 November 1944 |
Commissioned | 27 January 1945 |
Decommissioned | 15 July 1979 |
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Stricken | 15 July 1979 |
Nickname(s) | "Leaping Lenah" |
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Fate | Sunk as a target, 24 April 1986 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,425 long tons (2,464 t) |
Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
Propulsion | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 336 |
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Higbee was launched 13 November 1944 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. A. M. Wheaton, sister of the late Mrs. Higbee; and commissioned on 27 January 1945.[3]