Taste of Salt: A WWII Skipper Looks Back
A native of New Jersey, Theodore ?Ted? Treadwell lived most of his life in upstate New York and New England. After graduating from Rutgers University and Harvard Business School, he spent four years in the navy, two of them on a subchaser in the Pacific. After the war he and his wife Zan raised five children while he made a career in the packaging industry, from which he retired in 1984. Not long after that he began researching and writing about the little wooden subchasers. The years of research sent Treadwell and his sons Dan and Ted III to National Archives, the Naval Historical Center, the Naval Institute, and other facilities throughout the U.S., England, and Norway. Treadwell?s Fine Arts model of SC 648 is on display in the Navy Museum in Washington, DC. He continues to write while ?fully maturing? at the age of 91, in Bellingham, WA. The Treadwells maintain a website dedicated to subchasers: http://www.splinterfleet.org