NSRI Station 19 Richards Bay's Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon NRB 4334, a South African-built 1992 Camel Trophy standby vehicle donated to Sea Rescue in place of a Ford F250 and used for nineteen years to respond along the KwaZulu-Natal coast before transfer to Station 28A Port St Johns in March 2011.
BASE VEHICLEDefender 110BUILT BYLand Rover South Africa (Defender 110 station wagon, Rosslyn)IN SERVICE1992OPERATED INSouth AfricaPRODUCTION1LAYOUT4 wheels · 110″
The record
Land Rover South Africa built the Defender 110s for the 1992 Camel Trophy and kept standby vehicles in the same sandglow yellow. One of these went to the National Sea Rescue Institute's Station 19 at Richards Bay, where it replaced an ageing Ford F250 as the station's response vehicle — the one that got crew and gear to callouts along the beaches north and south of the harbour and carried volunteers to training — and stayed in that role for nineteen years. In March 2011 the station said farewell to it as it moved down the coast to the new Station 28A at Port St Johns.
The NSRI's photograph shows it at the station gate in its Sea Rescue livery: sandglow yellow above the waist, red below it, SEA RESCUE and the NSRI flag on the sides with STATION 19 on the doors, SEA RESCUE mirror-written on the bonnet for the rear-view mirrors ahead, a black bull bar with mesh headlamp guards and a winch, a roof rack carrying two spot lamps and the spare, and red steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle on the Defender 110 station wagon.
The side emblem was corrected at review to the NSRI flag: a navy-bordered white flag with a red cross and N S R I in the quadrants.
Specification
MANUFACTURERLand Rover South Africa (Defender 110 station wagon, Rosslyn)
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERNSRI Station 19 Richards Bay (Sea Rescue livery)
MANUFACTURED1992 Camel Trophy standby vehicle
ENGINELand Rover 200Tdi 2.5 L turbo-diesel (typical for the 1992 Camel Trophy fleet; not stated in the source)
PRODUCTION RUN1
COUNTRY OF ORIGINSouth Africa
OPERATED INSouth Africa
STATUShistoric
REGISTRATIONNRB 4334
FITTINGSBull bar with mesh lamp guards, winch, roof rack with spot lamps and spare, two-tone Sea Rescue livery
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYSpecial · Marine
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Renders & references
Front three-quarterRegistry renderThree-quarterRegistry renderSideRegistry renderRearRegistry renderFrontRegistry renderNRB 4334 at the Station 19 gate — the reference for this model; linked only.NSRI ↗