As part of Navy Week in 1933 on 5 August, Dewar was invited to open a naval paintings exhibition at the Ilford Galleries in London.
I ate superb fish and chips made on the premises at the Spice Island Inn in Bath Square, and visited the contemporary art exhibition in the Aspex gallery, housed in a former Grade I-listed naval armoury.
He was in Vietnam at a particularly "hot" time (1968) and he risked his life on small and vulnerable naval vessels that were often likened to targets in a shooting gallery.
In the southern port of Cartagena – the Republic's naval base – a former air-raid shelter now houses a series of galleries portraying local experiences of the conflict.
He had been traumatised by boarding school, which his naval officer father had sent him to, and the infantile macho environment of the gallery made it seem like he had returned there.
The Art Gallery of South Australia saved them from a 1941 wartime scrap drive and mounted them on reproduction naval carriages in front of Government House in 1962.
They said the prime minister strongly supported the idea of a new royal yacht — but one, they noted with a wary eye to the public gallery, that would be financed by private donations and that could double as a training ship for naval cadets from underprivileged backgrounds.
China staged naval exercises there.
