Ingalls Breaks Ground on Another Navy Ship

The first 100 tons of steel is cut for another U.S. Navy ship at the shipyard.
Huntington Ingalls officially broke ground on a new destroyer for the Navy Wednesday at the shipyard in Pascagoula. The vessel is named after the first woman to receive the Navy Cross: Lenah H. Higbee.
Ingalls has delivered 29 ships to the country’s fleet and has five DDG ships under construction right now. Ingalls was awarded the contract to build the five ships in June 2013.
Ingalls President Brian Cuccias refers to these destroyer ships as being the Corvettes of the fleet. “It is just the Corvette. It can do great things to protect this country. It is the start of the production line. Ingalls has been building DDG’s for 30 years starting back with DDG 113 to start that line. It’s pretty exciting to the ship builders here. We’re starting to get really good at building destroyers again. “
Higbee, who the DDG 123 is named after, was part of the newly established Navy Nurse Corps., a group of women who later became known as the Sacred Twenty.