(Below) A visit to HQ operations room followed the opening ceremony. While Mrs Thatcher looks through lifeboat photographs, Mr Denis Thatcher signs the visitors' book.

With them are (I to r) Cdr George Cooper, deputy chief of operations, Lt Alan Tale, staff officer operations (2}, the Duke of Atholl, Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations, and (hidden) Lt Cdr Brian Miles, deputy director..