By the way, I heard someone say that ship was going to burn to the waterline...I never heard of such a thing in a modern steel warship (not aluminum)
I wouldn’t think that would be possible...
That sounds like a bit of hyperbole. But being unable to follow it, I don’t know.
It doesn’t happen like it did in the Age Of Sail, where ships hulls were made of wood, at least not usually - but it still sort of happens. What is usually meant by that phrase for a modern steel ship is that the entire ship is scoured by fire to the point where nothing inside the hull or superstructure is left untouched or usable and only the parts below the waterline (and not even all of those) are even vaguely surviving as the water on the hull provides some relief from radiated heating. The basic hull and superstructure are still there (usually) but everything inside is gone - and due to heating the hull may no longer be safe to reuse.