USS Damato (DD-871)
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USS Damato (DD-871), named for Corporal Anthony Peter Damato USMC (1922-1944) killed in action while serving with an assault company against enemy Japanese forces on Engebi Island at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands on the night of 19-20 February 1944 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was a Gearing class destroyer 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. Damato alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet. USS Damato was decommissioned on 30 September 1980 and transferred to Pakistan as Tippu Sultan, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 October 1980 and scrapped in 1994.