Wouldn't that be true of any warship?
Aside:
Folks have found and surveyed the Prince of Wales.
PoW was reckoned state of the art at the time but was sunk by only a few torpedoes.
It now seems that the first hit caused a warp in a drive shaft which resulted in flooding and a list.
That list caused the PoW to raise her armor belt so when the torpedoes hit her other side they went into the unprotected underbelly.
Had they hit the armor belt as they otherwise would have PoW would have bounced the torpedoes off.
For comparison, the USS Juneau took a larger Japanese 1,000 lb warhead torpedo to its armor belt and survived. The only reason she sank so quickly later was the second sub launched torpedo managed to hit the exact same spot where the armor was already weakened.