IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 GNT
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Grant, Captain F W G (1905-1994)
Date(s): 20th century
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 8 boxes, including 4 oversized items
Name of creator(s): Grant | Frederick W G | 1905-1994 | Captain
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
F W G Grant, Shoreham Pilot and Captain, born 8th March 1905, at Southwick, Sussex, son of Frederick Grant (born 1866, discharged Ebenezer in 1890) and Ellen Grant (formerly Sayers). His Father was a Trinity House Pilot licensed for the London Outports District of Shoreham-by- Sea, Sussex. Captain FWG Grant was appointed a Trinity House Pilot. A former master of the Tug "Harold Brown" owned by the Shoreham Harbour Trustees in 1971. Mr Grant had a varied life as a deck boy before qualifying as a master.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Frederick W G Grant including his account of life as a Shoreham pilot.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Acquired from F W G Grant (bequest) via his son Peter John Grant.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jun 2011.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26