On this day in 1945, the destroyer USS Higbee was commissioned. USS Higbee was the first US Navy combat ship to bear the name of a female member of the naval service, named in honor of Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, who entered the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps in 1908.
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Stores Basin, Sembawang Dockyard, Singapore, 1974. RFA TIDESURGE and RFA TIDESPRING visiting with HMS LONDONDERRY, HMS SYCLLA, HMS DANAE, HMS CHICHESTER, HMAS VENDETTA, HMS HYDRA, HMS ARIADNE, HMS WASPERTON, HMS YARNTON, HMNZS OTAGO,
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