Unit History: RNAS Machrihanish

Royal Naval Air Station Machrihanish (HMS Landrail), is in Argyll and Bute in Scotland, not far from Campbeltown. It is on the western side of the Kintyre peninsula.
 
The station was closed in the 1950s.
 
It was also the name of a Royal Navy Destroyer involved in the first British Naval Action of World War One