USS Damato (DD-871)
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USS Damato (DD-871) off South America, in 1968
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| 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 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1980 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Pakistan |
 Pakistan
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| 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.
From her home port at Newport, Rhode Island, and after December 1947, from Norfolk, Virginia, Damato cruised the Atlantic Ocean from Cuba to Newfoundland in training and exercises. In the summer of 1949 she carried midshipmen on a training cruise to France and England, and that fall joined in experimental cold-weather operations in Arctic waters.
From September to November 1950, Damato had her first tour of duty with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, and during the next year joined in hunter-killer operations in the South Atlantic. She was reclassified DDE-871 on 4 March 1951. She returned to the Mediterranean in the fall of 1951, the summers of 1952, 1953, and 1954. In both 1952 and 1953, she joined in autumn North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises in the North Atlantic and during the summer of 1955 joined a Midshipman Training Cruise to Norway and Sweden.
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