When at sea

[listohan]

We have been going through a scrapbook of my wife's journey on P & O's Canberra from England to Australia in the mid 1960's. I was impressed by the menus and other professionally produced material created on board during the voyage. In pre-desktop publishing days, does anyone know what technology would have been used?

The thought of hot metal and the onset of rough seas is not a pleasant one. Or would they have thought of that?

[Mechanic]

Here is some information I posted in 2007.

http://www.metaltype.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,972.msg2212.html#msg2212

[Keri Szafir]

I'd say either manual composition or phototypesetting combined with photopolymer or offset.

[listohan]

Thanks. A copy of the Mauretania's ship's newsletter recording the rescue would be an interesting exhibit in any maritime (or printing) museum.

[Ken Smith]

When I was a printer with Cunard, all Menu covers were printed shore side with the menu printed in it at a later date. Also the Daily Programme of Events cover and Newspaper was printed likewise. When I was on the "Queen Mary" we always had to keep an eye on the Lino pot in rough weather so that it did not overflow.
             Ken Smith