2024 Christmas Tree Ship has officially completed its offload ... The Rouse Simmons set out with her cargo hold crammed with trees, and others stacked up to 8 feet high on her deck.

The Christmas Tree Ship nickname dates back to the Rouse Simmons, a three-masted schooner that sunk in a storm on Lake Michigan in 1912 with a cargo of Christmas trees. Those helping worked with ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A U.S. Coast Guard ship carrying 1,200 Christmas trees from Michigan arrived Friday at Navy Pier. The cutter Mackinaw made the annual Christmas Tree Ship voyage to deliver those ...

It was bound for Chicago, with a cargo of Christmas trees ... December 7th when they host their annual Christmas Tree Ship Day.

The cargo includes about 1,200 evergreens sourced from Dutchman Tree Farms, based in Manton, Michigan, and paid for by the Christmas Ship Committee. Chicago families don't just receive a tree ...

A ship and its captain, the crew, the trees, the tradition — all combined in a 1912 Yuletime tragedy to make a Great Lakes legend. As folks in Windsor and Essex County tuck into their Night ...

McKinley Community Services CEO Jamal Malone. The "Christmas Ship" has delivered 30,000 trees over the years, making the mighty Mackinaw a beacon of light and joy ahead of the holidays.

A tradition was born. That tradition was packing up Christmas trees to have delivered to military members and their families as part of the Christmas Spirit Foundation’s Trees for Troops program.

Authorities in the island district of Kalangala have banned transportation of cargo like timber, large sacks of brooms, and stones on MV Kalangala during the Christmas period. MV Kalangala is ...