- The corn crake,
corncrake or
landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family. It
breeds in
Europe and Asia as far east as
western China, and migrates...
- Air
Service have
borne the name HMS
Landrail,
another name for the bird more
commonly named a corn crake: HMS
Landrail (1806) was a 4-gun
schooner launched...
-
Royal Naval Air
Station Machrihanish, (RNAS Machrihanish; or HMS
Landrail), is a
former Royal Navy air station,
close to
Campbeltown in
Argyll and Bute...
- HMS
Landrail was a Laforey-class
destroyer of the
British Royal Navy. The
Laforey class (or L class) was the
class of
destroyers ordered under the Royal...
- The buff-banded rail (Hypotaenidia philippensis) is a
distinctively coloured,
highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the rail family, Rallidae. This species...
- HMS
Landrail was a Cuckoo-class
schooner built by
Thomas Sutton at Ringmore, Teignmouth. Like all her
class she
carried four 12-pounder
carronades and...
- On
February 4, 1942, the
squadron departed from RNAS
Machrihanish (HMS
Landrail),
Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and
embarked in the Illustrious-class aircraft...
-
Machrihanish and HMS
Landrail. The
original airfield became a
satellite station of the new
airfield and
became known as HMS
Landrail II.
Throughout the...
- used as an
airfield during 1918.
Reopened by
Royal Navy in 1941 as HMS
Landrail.
Transferred to RAF in 1963.
Since 1996, part of the site has been leased...
- Blackcap), Cheshire, on 22
September 1942 and to RNAS
Machrihanish (HMS
Landrail), Argyll, on 29
October to
spend November doing initial Deck
Launch Training...
