Oil tanker sizes range from general purpose to ultra-large crude carriers on AFRA scale. 1  Source: T. Mason Hamilton, U.S. Energy Information Administration. 2  Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, London Tanker Brokers' Panel. Note: AFRAMAX is not an official vessel classification on the AFRA scale but is shown here for comparison.
January 31, 1915 - December 10, 2008. On December 10, 1968 Thomas Merton died of an accidental electric shock from a faulty electric fan in his cottage at the Red Cross Conference Center in Samut Prakan, Thailand.
On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote of 67â22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion. McCarthy died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. The official cause of death was acute hepatitis.