HII introduced that its Ingalls Shipbuilding department finished approval tests for Arleigh Burke- course assisted projectile destroyer Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123).
“Completing a successful sea trial is always a significant accomplishment for our combined Ingalls and Navy team, and DDG 123 performed well,” Ingalls Shipbuilding President Kari Wilkinson claimed. “We are committed to this partnership and look forward to our next opportunity to demonstrate it during our next trial events for our first Flight III destroyer.”
DDG 123 is the 2nd destroyer to be called in honor of Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, the initial female to get theNavy Cross Higbee signed up with the Navy in October 1908 as component of the freshly developed Navy Nurse Corps, a team of ladies that would certainly come to be called “The Sacred Twenty,” and also came to be the 2nd superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in January 1911.
Ingalls has actually constructed 33 destroyers for the united state Navy, with 5 presently unfinished consisting of DDG 123, Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), Ted Stevens (DDG 128), Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129) and also George M. Neal (DDG 131). DDG 123 will certainly be the last Flight IIA destroyer Ingalls will certainly provide as the Navy changes to Flight III destroyers.
Arleigh Burke- course destroyers are very qualified, multi-mission ships that can perform a range of procedures, from peacetime existence and also situation monitoring to sea control and also power estimate, done in assistance of the United States armed forces technique. Guided projectile destroyers can all at once dealing with air, surface area and also subsurface fights. These ships have a myriad of offending and also protective tools created to sustain maritime protection requires well right into the 21st century.
