RNAS Longside is a former Royal Naval Air Service airship station located 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south of Longside, Aberdeenshire and 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of Hatton, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was constructed in 1915 and was operational from 1916 until 1920 when the extensive buildings were demolished. It is sometimes referred to as RNAS Lenabo particularly by locals who termed the airships 'Lenobo Soo' a reference to the name of the area combined with the local dialect for a pig. It was the most northerly air ship station in mainland Britain. The air ships also used a small mooring site near Montrose in bad weather. The remit was to patrol the shipping lanes in the North Sea and the north east coast.
Since the airship station was decommissioned, it has been used as a forestry plantation and there is little indication of its former use.
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RNASLongside is a former Royal Naval Air Service airship station located 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south of Longside, Aberdeenshire and 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north...
the south of the village in 1915–16; it is referred to as RNASLongside or sometimes RNAS Lenabo. It was the most northerly of the twelve airship stations...
followed by postings as Commanding Officer of RNASLongside and RNAS Pembroke. With the transfer of RNAS personnel into the new Royal Air Force (RAF) on...
Admiralty had established an Airship Station, RNASLongside, at Lenabo about 3+1⁄2 miles from Longside Station; the on-site complement was about 500....
the planned RNAS strategic bombing force to RFC squadrons on the Western Front because the Sopwith firm were contracted to supply the RNAS exclusively...
at that time Britain's airship fleet consisted of just seven craft – four RNAS airships (HMA 17, 18, 19, and 20), two continental ships and a small Willows...
class airship was developed in response to the increasing requirement of the RNAS to carry out long-range anti-submarine patrols and convoy escort duties off...