NAMED MODELSpecial · MarineSpecial · RescueUnited Kingdom
RNLI Lifeboat Launch Defender
HG55 GUA, the Seahouses lifeboat station's Defender 110 — RNLI navy with a front winch, blue lights and an orange inshore rescue boat on its trailer — used to launch the station's IRB down the Northumberland beach.
An inshore lifeboat lives on a trailer and goes to sea from a beach, and something has to tow it there and back up the sand at the end. At most RNLI stations that something is a tractor; at Seahouses on the Northumberland coast, launching the station's inshore rescue boat, it is a Land Rover Defender 110, registered HG55 GUA in 2005.
The vehicle carries the RNLI's dark blue livery, a winch on the front bumper, blue lights and the orange IRB on its trailer behind. As a 2005 Defender it has the Td5 five-cylinder diesel. The source documents its station and role; no further specification is published, and the RNLI's wider use of Land Rovers is not covered there.
Specification
MANUFACTURERLand Rover
MANUFACTURED2005 (HG55 registration)
ENGINE2.5 L Td5 turbodiesel inline-five (the Defender engine of 1998–2007)
PRODUCTION RUNOne vehicle
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSin service
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYSpecial · Marine, Special · Rescue
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.
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