| Author |
Message |
    
Tarn Stephanos
Member
Username: titanictarn
Post Number: 447
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 4:26 am: | 
|
Many liners of the past had a daily newspaper or newsletter. Did Titanic have her own daily newspaper- and if so, was there a printing press on board?
Tarn Stephanos |
Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 4108
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 5:02 am: |
|
I may be mistaken, but I think the Titanic had a newpaper called the Atlantic Daily Bullitin. The Titanic had a very small print shop on D deck just aft of the butcher shop on the port side.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
|
Tarn Stephanos
Member
Username: titanictarn
Post Number: 455
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:27 pm: |
|
I dont suppose any issues survived- taken off with survivors?
Tarn Stephanos |
Brandon Whited
Member
Username: andrews
Post Number: 746
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 2:38 am: |
|
I have never heard of any. Just where would passengers have obtained the Atlantic Daily Bulletin? I imagine it might have been delivered to their cabin during the morning if they requested it. I wonder if it was available to all three classes. Here I go raising more questions than answers!
Cheers, 
-B.W. |
Adam McGuirk
Member
Username: adam20
Post Number: 318
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 2:55 am: |
|
Brandon don't worry about asking questions! That is what the site is here for, for people to find out something certain about Titanic when they don't know. In fact you asked the questions that I was going to so now I don't have to ask them.
Adam |
Dave Gittins
Member
Username: gittins
Post Number: 628
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 4:56 am: |
|
A. Mishellany was designated Printer Steward and apparently printed menus. I've never seen evidence of a newspaper from a passenger or crewmember. I fear it was something they never got round to. |
Parks Stephenson
Member
Username: sparks
Post Number: 556
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 6:33 am: |
|
Each night during the First Watch, Marconi operator Jack Phillips would copy down the Marconi news service broadcast. He would send his copy down to the Purser's Office, where the bulletins were typed by the Purser (or one of his assistants) on a single sheet called the Atlantic Daily Bulletin. This was posted each night in the First Class Smoking Room. The Bulletin was not printed by the ship's printing office, nor was it a newspaper in the sense we know today. The White Star Line's newspaper, the Ocean Times, was not instituted until June 1912.
Parks |
Dave Gittins
Member
Username: gittins
Post Number: 629
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 11:07 am: |
|
Good one, Parks! |
Brandon Whited
Member
Username: andrews
Post Number: 750
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 4:02 pm: |
|
Thanks for that information, Parks. I have heard of some type of newspaper before, but never really knew anything about it. Now, thanks to your last post, I understand it!
Cheers,
-B.W. |
