HMS Landrail
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Five ships and two air stations of the Royal Navy 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 in 1806 and sold around 1816.
- HMS Landrail (1855) was a wood paddle tug, previously in civilian service as Gipsy King. She was purchased in 1855 and sold in 1856.
- HMS Landrail (1860) was a Philomel-class wood screw gunvessel launched in 1860 and sold into civilian service in 1869, being renamed Walrus. She was wrecked in October 1876
- HMS Landrail (1886) was a Curlew-class torpedo gunvessel launched in 1886 and sunk as a target in 1906.
- HMS Landrail (1914) was a Laforey-class destroyer launched in 1914. She was to have been named HMS Hotspur, but was renamed in 1913. She was sold in 1921.
- HMS Landrail (1940 shore establishment) was the stone frigate RNAS Campbeltown in 1941.
- HMS Landrail (1941 shore establishment) was RNAS Machrihanish, in commission between 1941 and 1946 and later 1951 to 1952.
- HMS Landrail II (shore establishment) was the stone frigate RNAS Campbeltown between 1941 and 1945.
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.