Rigby5
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Is that what happened in all these cases?
List of ships sunk by missiles - Wikipedia
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Most of those were sunk as test targets, with repeated hits until the hull was weakened to the point if split in 2.
The earliest sinking using the Fritz X, was not really a missile, but a guided bomb, dropped from above and blowing up below the waterline of defecting Italian ships in WWII.
I think you will find that missiles do not normally sink ships, and that those claimed, like the HMS Sheffield, likely were actually just scuttled.
I can't believe they could not have put out a fire 6 days later.