Posted by Roy Mengot on July 02, 1999 at 02:06:20 in 209.30.116.233:
In Reply to: Just Curious about Nameplates posted by Blake Kniffin on June 30, 1999 at 00:17:18:
: Can you still read Titanic's nameplates on the bow and on the stern?
: ~Blake
The 1987 expedition made a deliberate attempt to find the cut-in name on the port side. This was coupled with cutting the mainstay cables to make the letters more accessable and reduce the hazard posed by the cables to passing subs. The letters were found but I don't have a video source.
One of the mainstay cables looped back over the forecastle and hooked over the crowsnest ('86 WHOI research). Cutting the cable may have helped bring down the crows nest. the stern lettering is covered over with rusticles and and no attempt has been made to clear them off. I've nothing on the starboard side bow letters.