While the tree is often a focal point for holiday festivities, imagine the shock when divers found one standing properly on the deck of the shipwrecked schooner SV Rouse Simmons, which had been lost on Lake Michigan in 1912.
The SV Rouse Simmons, now known as the “Christmas Tree Ship,” sailed from Michigan...
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The Christmas Ship tradition continues to this day. The Coast Guard icebreaker, USCGC Mackinaw, home port Cheboygan, Michigan, travels the length of Lake Michigan picking up navigational buoys for the winter and delivers Christmas trees to Chicago for deserving families. The cutter Mackinaw stops at 44 degrees 16.640’ N, 087 degrees 24.863’ W to lay a wreath at the site of the sunken Rouse Simmons.