USS Higbee
USS Higbee (DDR-806) in the 1970’s | |
| History | |
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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 |
| Reclassified |
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| Stricken | 15 July 1979 |
| Identification |
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| Nickname(s) | "Leaping Lenah" |
| Honors & awards |
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| Fate | Sunk as a target, 24 April 1986 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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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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, 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.
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.