Saturday, December 7, 2013

A Christmas Wreath for the Christmas Tree Ship

From the November 25, 2013, Channel 3000 "Coast Guard to lay wreath near sunken Christmas tree ship."

The Coast Guard Cutter Mackinac is loaded with 1220 Christmas trees and then will cruise from its home port of Sheboygan to Chicago and have a ceremony today, December 7th, at Navy Pier to mark the 101st anniversary of the sinking of the Christmas Tree Ship, the Rouse Simmons, which sank in a storm on November 23, 1912.

The wreath will be placed in the water near the shipwreck near Two Rivers and Kewaunee, Wisconsin.

For more on the ship, click on the Christmas Tree Ship label.

A Chicago Tradition. --Cooter

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