NSRI Richards Bay Camel Trophy Defender 110
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.
History
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.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover South Africa (Defender 110 station wagon, Rosslyn)
- Manufactured
- 1992 Camel Trophy standby vehicle
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- NSRI Station 19 Richards Bay (Sea Rescue livery)
- Engine type
- Land Rover 200Tdi 2.5 L turbo-diesel (typical for the 1992 Camel Trophy fleet; not stated in the source)
- Production run
- 1
- Country of origin
- South Africa
- Operated in
- South Africa
- Status
- historic
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
- Farewell to Richards Bay Landrover ↗ — National Sea Rescue Institute (accessed 2026-09-12)
- NSRI flag logo (reviewer-supplied reference) ↗ — Google image thumbnail (accessed 2026-09-12)
Catalogue references
- https://www.nsri.org.za/2011/03/farewell-to-richards-bay-landrover/ https://www.nsri.org.za/2011/03/farewell-to-richards-bay-landrover/ ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T07:35:02.287Z · status: researched