You would think that would work but these ships have all kinds of compartmentalization and quick-response repair crews. And that’s an expensive hole. IMO, nothing beats a torpedo blowing up under a ship, cavitating the water under the middle of the ship and essentially letting gravity break the ship in half down the middle. No ship is strong enough to survive that.
quick-response repair crews - which are unfortunately becoming more and more reliant on women who lack the strength to so the job, not to mention the Navy’s penchant of building self-sinking ships and planes that can’t fly, and still other ships are made with aluminum which burns easily.