This is a model I completed by Thanksgiving 2011 and I gave to my sister-in-law, Ruth Workman. They are displaying it in their home next to their son, my nephew, Craig Workman, in Fontana, WI. The Rouse Simmons was a Great Lakes lumber schooner that was used in December to bring Christmas trees from the Wisconsin shores down to Chicago. It sank off the coast of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan in 1911. The wreck sits on the lake bottom and I used the photos at NordicDive.com from an exploratory dive to help me do varioius details on the model. I have it depicted in Christmas mode with a load of trees, a small tree on the fore mast to indicate it's coming with trees and two wreathes on the cat heads (anchor posts).Thursday, February 23, 2012
Model of Rouse Simmons famous Christmas schooner
This is a model I completed by Thanksgiving 2011 and I gave to my sister-in-law, Ruth Workman. They are displaying it in their home next to their son, my nephew, Craig Workman, in Fontana, WI. The Rouse Simmons was a Great Lakes lumber schooner that was used in December to bring Christmas trees from the Wisconsin shores down to Chicago. It sank off the coast of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan in 1911. The wreck sits on the lake bottom and I used the photos at NordicDive.com from an exploratory dive to help me do varioius details on the model. I have it depicted in Christmas mode with a load of trees, a small tree on the fore mast to indicate it's coming with trees and two wreathes on the cat heads (anchor posts).
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I so love that ship. I found a picture of the Rouse Simmons by Charles Vickery at our local Goodwill. I fell in love with the painting as well as the ship and it’s history. I’d love that replica.
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