RNLI station, Largs
On the seafront in Largs,
North Ayrshire.
North Ayrshire.
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The RNLI station in Largs right in front of Vikingar!
Like most RNLI stations it has a gift shop and a small café, open in the summer months, all run by volunteers to help raise funds.
The slipway was used in World War 2 to service Catalina flying boats. The building behind (then called Barrfields Pavilion) was converted to a servicing workshop for the seaplanes which were moored across the water by the shores of Cumbrae.
One of the slipways built on the island for the Catalinas is now used by Cal-Mac ferries to service Cumbrae, the other is at the now closed water sports centre.
There's a plaque by the Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust on the grey stone on the grass area left of the parking spaces marking this as the site of Largs Airfield from 1942 to 1945.
The field? Almost the whole of the Firth of Clyde.
It was probably here that the first commercial flight to the UK after the war disembarked its passengers in July 1945, a Catalina from Reykjavic operated by Iceland Airways, now known as Icelandair.
Like most RNLI stations it has a gift shop and a small café, open in the summer months, all run by volunteers to help raise funds.
The slipway was used in World War 2 to service Catalina flying boats. The building behind (then called Barrfields Pavilion) was converted to a servicing workshop for the seaplanes which were moored across the water by the shores of Cumbrae.
One of the slipways built on the island for the Catalinas is now used by Cal-Mac ferries to service Cumbrae, the other is at the now closed water sports centre.
There's a plaque by the Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust on the grey stone on the grass area left of the parking spaces marking this as the site of Largs Airfield from 1942 to 1945.
The field? Almost the whole of the Firth of Clyde.
It was probably here that the first commercial flight to the UK after the war disembarked its passengers in July 1945, a Catalina from Reykjavic operated by Iceland Airways, now known as Icelandair.
