News Briefs: Ingalls to host christening event for DDG 123 Updated 1:22 PM; Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. The christening of the guided missile destroyer Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) is set for the evening of April 24 at the Pascagoula shipyard. Among those scheduled to speak are newly-appointed Program Vice President George Nungesser, Prospective Commanding Officer Douglas Brayton, and Pickett Wilson, the ship’s sponsor. DDG 123 is named in honor of Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, one of the original “Sacred Twenty” -- the term used to describe the first 20 woman who formed the new Navy Nurse Corps in 1908. Higbee would serve as the Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps during World War I and her service during the war led to her becoming in 1920 the first woman to receive the Navy Cross.