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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Caulfornorne. As the Titanic sank into the icy depths of the Atlantic, did the band really play on on deck?

And is it true that the cruise liner could have stayed afloat if it had hit the iceberg head on?

In today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, Tim Malton answers your questions about the maritime disaster of 1912.

He was joined in conversation by BBC History Revealed magazine editor Charlotte Hodgman.

Tim, thank you very much for joining us today.

I think probably, so what we're going to be doing today is we've got some,

we've had lots of questions actually from readers and social media followers around Titanic.

And we've also got some popular search engine questions as well.

So I think perhaps if we start with some of the popular search ending questions,

we kind of put a little bit of context around Titanic. So first off, I mean, how big was Titanic and, you know, how was it built, where was it built, that kind of thing? Sure. Well, Titanic was

882 feet long and about 92 feet wide. She was built at

Harland and Wolfshipyard in Belfast and she was one of a twin. So her other sister was called

the Olympic and they were both the larger ships in the world. So some of our followers on

Instagram wanted to know about the disparities between the classes on board.

How were classes separated, you know, during sailing?

Well, in 1912, there was quite a rigid class structure on transatlantic liners.

And in particular, the Titanic had a third class, a second class and a rigid class structure on transatlantic liners. And in particular, the Titanic had a

third class, a second class and a first class. And that was actually very rigidly upheld because there

were immigration laws into the US, which meant that third class and second class had to be kept

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