HMAS Harman

HMAS Harman
active	1943 until now
Country	Australia
Type	Logistics and communication
Location	Canberra , Australia
Nickname	The Stone Frigate
motto	Ne Cede ( do n't give up)

HMAS Harman is an intelligence and logistic facility of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). It is located in the Australian capital Canberra . The facility was built in the late 1930s.

Coordinates: 35 ° 20 ′ 47.3 ″  S , 149 ° 12 ′ 4.1 ″  E

HMAS Harman​

Australia

history

The system was completed on April 20, 1939 and started radio operations on December 22, 1939.

In addition to the task of data transmission , HMAS Harman takes on administrative and logistical tasks for the Navy personnel in the Australian Capital Territory and in southern New South Wales . The facility also contains a supply depot for the Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force .

A member of the Royal Australian Navy Women's Service in HMAS Harman in 1941. Harman was the first unit in which women served in the RAN.

The Sydney Morning Herald named HMAS Harman as one of four monitoring organizations in Australia, along with Pine Gap , Shoal Bay and Geraldton / Kojarena , that use XKeyscore software to collect data for the NSA .

literature

• Lieutenant Annette Nelson: HMAS Harman 1943-2003 - A History of HMAS Harman and it's people . DC-DC Publications, 1993.

See also

• Australian Security Intelligence Organization , also headquartered in Canberra
• Australian Secret Intelligence Service , also headquartered in Canberra
• Australian Signals Directorate , Canberra
• Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex

Web links

• HMAS Harman official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philip Dorling: Edward Snowden reveals Australia's Links To Secret US Spy Program ( English ) In: The Sunday Morning Herald . July 8, 2013. Archived from the original on August 2, 2013. Retrieved on August 2, 2013.