Higbee is the first woman to have a U.S. warship named after her. The first USS Higbee -- a Gearing-class destroyer nicknamed "The Leaping Lenah"-- was christened in 1944 and served in the Pacific ...

DDG-122 will be the second warship named to honor Basilone, following the Gearing-class destroyer USS Basilone (DD-824), which was commissioned in 1949 and served with the U.S. Navy until it was ...