RAF Limavady

RAF Limavady, in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland, opened in 1940 as a Coastal Command station playing its part in the long fight against the U-boats in the Atlantic. Vickers Wellingtons and Lockheed Hudsons of its many rotating squadrons flew anti-submarine patrols far out over the western approaches, and the station also housed an operational training unit and a school for anti-U-boat devices. The military left in 1945 and the site was sold in the 1950s; it is now partly an industrial estate, with the runways still traceable from the air.