- Date
- 2008-12
- Kind
- Transportation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimetransportationheritagecommunity
- Within
- Chicago · Beaver Island
Summary
The Beacon connected a modern USCGC Mackinaw Christmas-tree delivery to the tradition associated with the Rouse Simmons, which had at times been owned by Beaver Islanders. The 2008 run brought roughly one thousand trees to Chicago and included school tours.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper feature, not a complete Coast Guard cargo, ownership, or education-program record.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, January 2009, "The Christmas Tree Ship Sails Again."Reports the Mackinaw's third twenty-first-century run, delivery of about one thousand trees to Navy Pier, and school tours with nautical-history lessons. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the Christmas tree ship report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-01_Beaver-Beacon
Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “USCGC Mackinaw continues the Christmas tree ship tradition, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-christmas-tree-ship-mackinaw-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2009, "The Christmas Tree Ship Sails Again." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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