Video: Santa uses J.W. Westcott boat to deliver lobsters

Santa stepped in to help delivery mail Christmas Eve on the Detroit River to freight crew members by taking a ride on the U.S. Mail Boat J.W. Westcott II.

The unusually warm winter has left the river ice free and freighters continue to move bulk cargoes late into the year.

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Santa was recorded delivering mail and a case of live lobsters for Christmas dinner to a freighter unloading at Zug Island. The lobsters came from a crew man's parents who live in Maine.

The J.W. Wescott Co., a Detroit company,  has been servicing freighters since 1874.

(Video provided by Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online Inc.)