_off_South_America_1968.jpg) USS Damato (DD-871) off South America, in 1968
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Damato |
| Namesake | Anthony P. Damato |
| Builder | Bethlehem Mariners Harbor, Staten Island |
| Laid down | 10 May 1945 |
| Launched | 21 November 1945 |
| Commissioned | 27 April 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 30 September 1980 |
| Stricken | 1 October 1980 |
| Fate | Transferred to Pakistan |
 Pakistan | |
| Name | Tippu Sultan |
| Namesake | Tipu Sultan |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1994 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 2,616 tons standard; 3,460 tons full load |
| Length | 390.5 ft (119.0 m) |
| Beam | 40.9 ft (12.5 m) |
| Draught | 14.3 ft (4.4 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft; General Electric steam turbines; 4 boilers; 60,000 shp |
| Speed | 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h) |
| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,330 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
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USS Damato (DD-871) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Corporal Anthony P. Damato USMC (1922–1944), who was killed in action during the Battle of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Damato was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 10 May 1945, launched on 21 November 1945 by Mrs. A. P. Damato and commissioned on 27 April 1946.[1]