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Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (HII) has delivered the final Flight IIA Arleigh Burke destroyer Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) to the US Navy.

This represents the official transfer of the ship from the shipbuilder to the Navy

A small ceremony was held at the Pascagoula, Miss., yard, during which the shipyard signed over ownership of the ship.

Higbee was procured as part of a 2013 multi-ship award between Ingalls and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Maine. The keel was laid in 2017, and the ship launched in 2020.

Kari Wilkinson, president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, in a statement, said,
“Delivering an incredibly capable finished ship to the Navy is always an important event for our Ingalls team”

In this video Defense Updates analyzes why Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee would be an important addition to US Navy ?

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https://hii.com/news/photo-release-huntington-ingalls-industries-christensdestroyer-lenah-sutcliffe-higbee-ddg-123/

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https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2017/april/lenah-sutcliffe-higbee-navy-nurse-corps-pioneer

www.seaforces.org / HII
https://www.seaforces.org/usnships/ddg/DDG-123-USS-Lenah-H-Sutcliffe-Higbee.htm

hii.com
https://hii.com/news/ingalls-shipbuilding-president-were-a-big-volume-big-production-shipyard/

hii.com
https://hii.com/news/photo-release-huntington-ingalls-industries-christensdestroyer-lenah-sutcliffe-higbee-ddg-123/

hii.com
https://hii.com/news/photo-release-huntington-ingalls-industries-christensdestroyer-lenah-sutcliffe-higbee-ddg-123/

hii.com
https://hii.com/news/hii-delivers-destroyer-lenah-sutcliffe-higbee-ddg-123-to-u-s-navy/