The U.S. Navy will commission the new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee in a ceremony in Key West Saturday.

The ship, designated DDG-123, will be the second U.S. Navy vessel named for the Canadian-born nurse who in 1908 was one of the first 20 female nurses in the Navy in a group that later came to be known as the “Sacred Twenty.” She later served as superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps in the first world war.

For her contributions to military nursing, Higbee was the first woman to receive the Navy Cross citation.

The vessel, which was christened on April 24, 2021, at the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., will be able to carry more than 90 missiles and is designed for multiple combat roles, including anti-aircraft warfare, surface to surface warfare, long-range cruise missile strikes, and anti-submarine warfare.