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[QUOTE="Parks Stephenson, post: 188201, member: 163522"]
No, and I'm not certain of how Lightoller would know.  The assumption, of course, is that Bride told him as much on the Carpathia. 
 
I don't see the relevance, either way.  The Mesaba message was not coded for the Master's immediate attention.  Without that priority code, Phillips was required to first attend to the traffic for which his company employed him...that of the passengers' paid messages.   Whether he used a paperweight or not, Phillips was doing his job by holding onto the message until his higher-priority work was completed.  Naturally, the Titanic disaster would highlight the flaw in this system and the message-handling rules were immediately changed to give all messages relating to the ship's navigation an automatic priority.  What seems like common sense to us today (Phillips deciding the priority of the message on his own) would have been a breach of Marconi Company policy and Postmaster-General regulations before the Titanic sank. 
 
Parks
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