page_title: USS Higbee
hierarchical_section_title: USS Higbee
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy radar picket destroyer USS Higbee (DDR-806) is refueled by the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) during that carrier's deployment to the Western Pacific from 5 March to 11 October 1960. The guided missile cruiser USS Canberra (CAG-2) is visible in the background.
context_page_description: USS Higbee 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, 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, Commander Lindsay Williamson in command.
context_section_description: 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, Commander Lindsay Williamson in command.
caption: USS Higbee (DDR-806) being refueled by USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14), in 1960
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