United States Navy Facility, Barbados
The Naval Facility (NAVFAC) Barbados, TWI was a naval base which was commissioned on 1 October 1957, with a complement of about 12 officers and about 88 enlisted personnel. It was located at site of Harrison's Point, in the Parish of Saint Lucy in the British colonial territory of Barbados of the West Indies. The facility opened about one-month following the U.S. Navy Facility established in the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas. NAVFAC Barbados was operated by the United States Navy for twenty-two years and was officially decommissioned on 31 March 1979.
Motto: Arcana Maris Quaerere
See also
- NAVFAC
- SOund SUrveillance System (SOSUS)
- Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
- Benjamin Thurman Hacker
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