A small bay with a narrow sandy beach, Port Laing is situated a quarter-mile (0.5 km) northeast of North Queensferry in S Fife. It lies on the Fife Coastal Path and can be accessed from Port Laing Wynd to the northeast of the Carlingnose Point housing development. A Royal Naval Air Station operated here 1912-14, with three sheds, each containing a single seaplane, located on the shore. This is said to be the first military air station in Scotland but it was clear this was not an ideal location, exposed to winds blowing up the Firth of Forth. To the south a submarine mining station was involved in maintaining and controlling the minefields which defended the Forth during the First and Second World Wars. A B-listed pier, which was built c. 1898 for loading the mines, remains.
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