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Nickum And Spaulding

Form New Organization

With Offices In Seattle

George C. Nickum and Philip F. Spaulding have jointly announced the association of the two naval architectural firms W.C. Nickum &

Sons Company and Philip F. Spaulding & As- sociates, Inc. The new firm name will be Nick- um & Spaulding Associates, with offices at 71

Columbia Street, Seattle, Wash. The principals of the firm will be George Nickum as presi- dent and general manager, with Philip Spauld- ing as vice president in charge of promotion and new design projects. Other principals of the new association will be Benjamin Downs, the chief naval architect in complete charge of all drafting and design, and John Weiks as chief engineer. Gordon Snyder will be the prin- cipal naval architect in charge of special design projects and the chief marine surveyor will be

Merlin Needles, who will be in charge of all field inspection forces.

Clay Carlock will be the firm's controller and Mrs. Eloise G. Strom will be the firm's corporate secretary. Other staff assignments include: Ed Hagemann as chief of the hull scientific section; Jack Starbird as associate naval architect; Dan Mahler as assistant naval architect, and Larry Menne as chief hull drafts- man in charge of all of the hull design staff.

The marine engineer will be Frank Vibrans

Jr.; the assistant engineer will be Peter Kalby.

The chief mechanical draftsman in charge of mechanical design staff will be Lou Dicken.

The chief electrical draftsman in charge of the electrical design staff will be Miles Luckey.

Paul Elliott has been designated as special projects manager.

The association of these two highly success- ful companies forms one of the strongest naval architectural design teams in the entire coun- try. Most notable of the firm's accomplish- ments have been in the area of ferryboat de- sign. The association has been responsible for the design of virtually all of the Washington

State ferry fleet in addition to the state of

Alaska ferries. The first two vessels of the

British Columbia ferry system were designed by the association, and the other vessels of the

Dogwood Fleet are modifications to those two vessels. Two 426-foot oceangoing ferries for inter-island service in Hawaii have been de- signed and are presently in the final stages of financing.

The association has the full responsibility for system design relating to the Golden Gate

Bridge Ferry System in San Francisco and is presently designing five high-speed 750-pas- senger vessels for that service.

In tug and barge design, the association has been particularly noteworthy in the fact that they were responsible for the design of the

Daring Class tugs for the Crowley interests in

San Francisco, there being eight tugs con- structed of this one design.

The firm was also responsible for the Sea

Swift Class tugs over 7,000 horsepower, also designed for the Crowley interests in San

Francisco, there being six vessels being built off this design.

The other noteworthy vessels have been the design of the tugs Henry Foss and Arthur

Foss for the Foss Launch & Tug Company; the Mogul for Washington Tug & Barge Com- pany; tug San Pedro for the Willmington

Transportation Company, the tugs Western

Comet and Western Meteor for Western

Transportation Company in Portland, Ore., plus several classes of tugs for the U.S. Navy and the Army Transportation Corps.

The firm has designed many barges, the most noteworthy being the cryogenic barge Kenai, operated by the Collier Carbon & Chemical

Corp., which is of 19,000 tons displacement and 495 feet overall. Other barges of note are the Diamond Head and the Koko Head, which are operated by Pacific Hawaiian Lines.

In research vessels, the firm designed the

Miller Freeman, the John N. Cobb, and the

Oliver Cromwell for the Bureau of Commercial

Fisheries, and the vessels Explorer and Path- finder for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

The cableships that laid telephone cables to

Alaska and Hawaii were the firm's responsi- bility.

Fish factory ships were a recognized spe- cialty of the firm 15 years ago, and old-timers along the waterfront will remember the Pacific

Explorer, the Neva, the Ogontz, the Memon, the International and the Saipan and Tinian in their days of activity. Alaskan memories will be stirred by the names of the passenger ship

Alaska, Yukon, Aleutian, Cordova and Laki- ma; the Indian Affairs vessel North Star and the Yukon River stern-wheeler Nenana, all of which sprang from the association's boards.

The fireboats Alki and Duwamish are other local examples of the firm's work.

Work for the U.S. Navy and other Govern- ment agencies have long played an important part in the association's activities. Local pro- jects included the hydrofoils Highpoint and

Plainview, built by Boeing and Lockheed. Am- phibious craft designs include the 60-ton Army vessel Bare, originally built by the Pacific Car and Foundry Company. Over the past 30 years, the association has been responsible for literally thousands of military craft ranging from supply vessels, mine sweepers, patrol craft, net layers, seaplane tenders, repair ships, hospital ships, communication ships, escort vessels and transports. In recent years, the as- sociation has handled all of the U.S. Navy's floating drydock designs.

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