HM Coastguard SAR Defender 130
HM Coastguard search and rescue Land Rover Defender 130 double cab in the Coastguard's current livery — white with a yellow bonnet and roof, yellow-and-blue battenburg, COAST GUARD on the doors and a SEARCH AND RESCUE equipment box on the bed — displayed at the NEC Emergency Services Show in September 2015.
History
HM Coastguard's rescue teams around the UK coast moved from Land Rover Series and Defender station wagons to a standardised fleet of Defender 130 double cabs through the 2000s, the crew cab seating a team of volunteers and the bed carrying a purpose-built equipment box for cliff, mud and water rescue gear. With the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's adoption of the national emergency-service battenburg scheme the vehicles gained yellow and blue chequer along the sides, yellow bonnets and roofs for visibility from the air, and COAST GUARD in yellow with a blue outline on the doors.
The Flickr photograph shows a fresh example on the Coastguard stand at the NEC Emergency Services Show in September 2015: white 130 double cab, yellow bonnet with mirror-written HM COASTGUARD, yellow roof with a blue light bar, two-row battenburg along the doors and rear body, the white equipment box lettered SEARCH AND RESCUE with the coastguard crest, black wheel-arch eyebrows and white steel wheels. The registry model reproduces that vehicle on the Defender 130 double cab.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover (Defender 130 double cab)
- Manufactured
- Late Defender 130; shown September 2015
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- HM Coastguard / MCA (equipment box, battenburg livery)
- Engine type
- Ford 2.2 L Duratorq TDCi turbo-diesel
- Production run
- unknown
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- United Kingdom
- Status
- in-service
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Defender
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 130″
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.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- HM Coastguard Land Rover Defender 130, Emergency Services Show 2015 (Flickr, mj_100) ↗ — Flickr (accessed 2026-09-12)
Catalogue references
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/mj_100/21491865598/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mj_100/21491865598/ ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T05:29:01.815Z · status: researched