- 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...
- 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...
-
Royal Naval Air
Station Machrihanish, (RNAS Machrihanish; or HMS
Landrail), is a
former Royal Navy air station,
close to
Campbeltown in
Argyll and Bute...
-
being sunk by HMS
Landrail, but
likely mined December 1916 (wreck
discovered in 2017,
which contradicts the
credit to
Landrail.
Landrail probably mistook...
- 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...
- The buff-banded rail (Hypotaenidia philippensis) is a
distinctively coloured,
highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the rail family, Rallidae. This species...
- to
escort a
convoy from the
Caribbean to the UK.
After arriving at HMS
Landrail, RNAS Machrihanish, Scotland, in April, it took on
Merchant Aircraft Carrier...
-
register tons (GRT). UB-29 was
supposedly sunk by two
depth charges from HMS
Landrail south of
Goodwin Sands at 51°9′N 1°46′E / 51.150°N 1.767°E / 51.150;...
- "gun and
torpedo vessels". The two
ships of the class, HMS
Curlew and HMS
Landrail, were laid down in 1885 at
Devonport Dockyard. However, upon
entering service...
