The Christmas Tree Ship

By Rochelle M. Pennington, Charles Vickery

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Christmas trees, Shipwrecks, Rouse Simmons (Schooner), Transportation

Description: Every year Captain Herman Schuenemann and his 'Christmas Tree Ship' would bring a load of fresh Christmas trees from Michigan to Chicago. But in 1912, the fully loaded ship was unable to withstand a winter storm and sank in Lake Michigan near Two Rivers, Wisconsin.