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Thanks for the links. Googling some of the ships listed as casualties led me to this page http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/News/Home.html

So it looks like the ships are not necessarily lost, and some of them aren't all that big...

Yeah true - I think gravitystorm's comment is quite accurate when it comes down to big vessels.

I did a bit more googling and found this site:

Even though it looks this site is hosted on geocities, there are links to current vessel casualties with details to damage, human casualties, etc.