Titanic Disaster--Even Worse

I think the easiest way to make it worse would be some sort of wireless failure. Titanic would send no distress signal, and no one would know when or where it foundered. There might be some estimates once lifeboats and debris are found, but the parameters will be much wider than they were.
Which is quite plausible given that they actually did have a lot of trouble with the equipment, even on the maiden voyage. This is not surprising considering that this tech was very new and still somewhat delicate and unreliable technology, the very first transmissions having only taken place about 15 years before the Titanic sailed.
 

Not really...
Arizona - head-on into an iceberg - crushed bow and a deformation zone extending a few metres aft.
Stockholm - angle means we only see the crushed bow

Elsewhere - Queen Mary after chopping HMS Curacao in half - crushed bow and a collision barely noticed on board. Of course, that's partly because she chopped right through without decelerating much, but the point is that the bow crushed and that crushing occurred without a great shock.

The difference between an old light cruiser and an iceberg is that the crush zone has to take up the entire kinetic energy of the ship, rather than the energy lost in chopping the cruiser in half. But the deformation behaviour is the same, hence the difference with an iceberg is the extent of the crush zone. And Titanic has, what, 40-50 m to play with before sufficient watertight compartments are guaranteed to be ruptured.
 
In OTL, the wreckage was discovered in 1985. It may take a little longer, but somebody would track the course from planned route and wireless signals and by now, find it. Underwater cameras would reveal a ripped hull and sinking scenarios would be circulated.

OTL 1995 they knew within a few miles were she Went down. ITTL 1985 they would not know were to begin searching and the Atlantic is big
 
Here to help! As far as your scenario: it sounds like a fun timeline actually. The most immediate impact (IMO) is that the drive to get enough lifeboats on a ship for every passenger may go away without Titanic's OTL sinking.
Something else doesn't happen: the International Ice Patrol isn't created, which makes similar accidents more likely.
 
Surely worse would involve more damage, a quicker sinking, more loss of life but not a complete loss of life. Someone would have got a boat off or a signal away.
 
Surely worse would involve more damage, a quicker sinking, more loss of life but not a complete loss of life. Someone would have got a boat off or a signal away.
Not necessarily. With all the compartments opened to the sea the damage would have been as bad or worse than what happened to the Lusitania, which sank in less than 20 minutes and only launched six lifeboats--and that was in daylight with everyone awake. With Titanic, in the middle of the night and an almost immediate loss of electrical power there might not have been any time to get off a signal. Launching lifeboats might have been impossible and even if they did get a few off, they probably would have been swamped by all the people in the water. No survivors and no signal is a real possibility.
 
On loss of life, am I wrong loss of electric power would trap everyone in third class? AIUI, the doors were locked electrically, so without power, they'd be impossible to open.
 
Actually, the loss of electrical power would plunge the whole ship into darkness. It would take critical time to find flashlights or light candles or lanterns. Trying to organize any action (like launching the lifeboats) would be impossible in the short time they'd have.
 
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