RNAS Series III Fire Rescue
Royal Navy Series III 109 fire and rescue Land Rover Q877 OBP from RNAS Portland, a red truck cab with a locker body of rescue gear, ladders on the roof and a barred grille guard, one of the small Series III fire vehicles kept at naval air stations for airfield fire and crash-rescue duties.
History
Naval air stations kept small four-wheel-drive rescue vehicles alongside their foam tenders to reach a crashed helicopter or aircraft across the airfield and its surrounds. Q877 OBP, a Series III 109 truck cab in fire red with a locker body on the bed, served RNAS Portland — HMS Osprey, the Dorset helicopter base — and carries RNAS PORTLAND / RESCUE on its doors, ROYAL NAVY on the body sides, ladders on a roof rack, hose and rescue tools in the lockers, a red barred guard over the grille with blue lamps below and a Q-prefix registration marking its late civil registration after military service. ukemergency.co.uk photographed it in preservation alongside RAF and other fire vehicles.
The registry's model is a red Series III 109 truck cab with the locker body, lettering, roof-rack ladders, grille guard and blue lamps; in the game it carries water-pool pickups and the blue-light boost.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover (Series III 109-inch truck cab)
- Manufactured
- Series III; Q registration after service
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Royal Navy (fire and rescue fit)
- Engine type
- Rover 2.25 L four-cylinder petrol
- Production run
- Small batch; count unknown
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- United Kingdom
- Status
- preserved
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Series III
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 109″
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
- Q877 OBP Royal Navy Land Rover Series III ↗ — UK Emergency Vehicles (accessed 2026-09-11)
Catalogue references
- https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/q877-0bp-royal-navy-land-rover-series-iii/ https://www.ukemergency.co.uk/q877-0bp-royal-navy-land-rover-series-iii/ ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-11T16:11:38.484Z · status: researched