He blew up because the game is totally screwed up in that department. Real battleships had anti-torpedo bulges filled with inert materials which helped prevent that sort of thing.
Even the ships at Pearl Harbor took several torpedoes each, and they were unbuttoned, that is all the watertight doors were open. No torpedo is going to reach the magazines.
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