So I don't know if this is a bug or a new feature (if it's a new feature then it's not been made very apparent as I spoke with several people in the US Nation chat box and no one knew what was going wrong), but apparently when you leave a battle, the Fleet Ships that you have sailing with you lose a Durability point. I realize this was causing it until I spawned outside of battle (after leaving the battle) and my Fleet ship was no longer in my UI that normally shows up on the left hand side of the game screen.
I double checked and triple checked, and after still not seeing it I went to the closest port to find that the ship was in fact gone.
So unless players are now being punished for leaving battle (in hopes to save their ships), then this seems like a really big bug to me. I last played NA last Sunday, so I don't know it the Devs can see the game logs anymore from that day, but I stopped playing right after this happened (due to frustration) and haven't played again since.
Anyone have any insight on this? Is it a bug? Or is this now in fact a feature? To which I say is a pretty low joke if I ever have known one.