 The facility was commissioned on 1 October 1957, with a complement of about 12 officers and about 88 enlisted personnel.It was located adjacent to the Harrison Point Lighthouse in the Parish of Saint Lucy, Barbados, then part of the British colonial territory of the West Indies.The facility was commissioned about one-month following the U.S. Navy Facility established in the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas where the first operational array had been installed in 1952.