CHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- It’s a holiday tradition for the coast guard and for Cheboygan County students as well. They helped load the Cutter Mackinaw with 1,200 Christmas trees.

and USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) paraded past thousands of onlookers as they ported in “Coast Guard City USA” on Monday, July 31. MLive was on aboard the USCGC Mackinaw when it opened to the ...

The USCGC Mackinaw, USCGC Bristol Bay, and USCGC Katamai Bay sailed into the port of Grand Haven just after 1 p.m. Monday. The law requires the U.S. Coast Guard to maintain a heavy icebreaking ...

The shipping season is almost over. But the ice in the harbor still needs clearing, and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw was happy to help. She’s been assigned duty for Operation Taconite ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw (WLBB 30) has started clearing ice in the Duluth-Superior Harbor as part of Operation Taconite to overcome the freezing weather in the region. An officer ...

One at a time, 1,200 Christmas trees were offloaded from the United States Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw. The massive vessel and its crew, making the multi-day journey to deliver Christmas cheer ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw made an unexpected stop in the shipping channel in Superior on Thursday last week. They stopped to remove an ice shelter that had migrated into the channel.

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 ...

On Saturday morning at Chicago's Navy Pier, 1,200 Christmas trees will be ceremonially unloaded from the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw, the Guard's only heavy icebreaker on the Great Lakes.