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.
His grave is marked by a plain white cross. His wife, Caitlin Thomas, is buried in the same grave and her name appears on the reverse side of the cross. Gravestone of Dylan Thomas. Thomas died on November 9, 1953 while on a lecture tour of America. He had been drinking heavily the night he died in the White Horse pub in Greenwich Village, New York.