Maryport Inshore Rescue Defender 110
Maryport Inshore Rescue's Land Rover Defender 110 station wagon G693 NHH, one of the independent Cumbrian lifeboat service's pair of response vehicles, in dark teal-blue with a white roof, orange waist stripe, MARYPORT RESCUE light bar, roof rack with spot lamps, bonnet spare, snorkel and winch, photographed towing the inshore lifeboat in 2012.
History
Maryport Inshore Rescue is an independent lifeboat service on the Solway coast of Cumbria, founded in 1975 and run by volunteers without RNLI funding. Its boats cover the Solway's fast tides and mudflats and its crews also turn out for mud, cliff and flood rescues along the shore, so the station has always needed road vehicles that can launch and recover the boat from rough slipways and get a crew across the sands. In 2012 it ran two Land Rovers: G693 NHH, a 1990 Defender 110 station wagon fitted out as the lifeboat tow and ambulance vehicle, and PX60 UAB, a 2010 Defender 90 hard top.
The Flickr photograph shows both outside the boathouse: the 110 in dark teal-blue with a white roof, an orange stripe below the windows, a MARYPORT RESCUE light bar with blue and orange lamps, a full-length roof rack carrying spot lamps, the spare on the bonnet, a snorkel on the left A-pillar, AMBULANCE on the bonnet lip, a covered winch and blue lamps on the front bumper, the station's crest on the front doors and RESCUE CREW across the top of the windscreen; the 90 behind it in the same scheme with a light bar, rack and MARYPORT RESCUE sun strip. The registry models reproduce both — this record is the 110, with the 90 as its companion in the Marine group.
Corrected at review: the door crest is the Maryport Rescue badge — a rope-edged ring, yellow field quartered by a red cross with lifeboat, anchor, lighthouse and ship, and a MARYPORT RESCUE banner.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover (Defender 110 station wagon, 1990)
- Manufactured
- G registration (1989–90); photographed 2012
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Maryport Inshore Rescue (response and tow-vehicle fit)
- Engine type
- Land Rover 200 Tdi 2.5 L turbo-diesel (inferred)
- Production run
- 2 (the station's pair of Land Rovers: this 110 and a Defender 90)
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- United Kingdom
- Status
- unknown
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Defender
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 110″
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
- Maryport Inshore Rescue Land Rovers (Flickr, lifeboatphotography) ↗ — Flickr (accessed 2026-09-12)
- Maryport Rescue crest (reviewer-supplied reference) ↗ — Google image thumbnail (accessed 2026-09-12)
Catalogue references
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeboatphotography/6851902798/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeboatphotography/6851902798/ ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T08:14:57.334Z · status: researched