Ships Named After Navy Nurse Corps Officers
- USS Higbee (DD-806) (First U.S. Navy warship named in honor of a woman - 2nd Superintendent of Navy Nurses Lenah Higbee)
- USS Dorothea L. Dix (AP-67) (First Superintendent of Army Nurses Dorothea Dix)
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