CCGS Leonard J. Cowley

The CCGS "Leonard J. Cowley" is a high endurance all weather, offshore ice strengthened multi patrol vessel of the Canadian Coast Guard. It was built in 1984 and underwent a modernization in 1996. CCGS "Leonard J. Cowley" has a hangar and flight deck capable of operating a "Eurocopter BO-105" helicopter.

The vessel is armed with two 12.7 mm machine guns (.50 cal Browning) and carries a stockpile of small armsFact|date=June 2007. She is mostly used for fishery patrol off Newfoundland and Labrador. She is named for Canada's first Minister of Marine and Fisheries.

The Leonard J. Cowley is said to share design elements with the Republic of Ireland's Róisín class Patrol Craft.cite web
url=http://www.sfu.ca/casr/id-opv-small.htm
title=The Kingston Class: 'Mid-Life' or Move Over for the MCDV?
author=Stephen Priestley
publisher=Canadian American Strategic Review
month=June | year=2006
accessdate=2007-06-18]

Popular culture

Bryan Williston of the Canadian folk band [http://www.tworoadshome.com/ Two Roads Home] has adapted the poem "The Amphion" (written by Holmes Hooke) into a lively song. Both the song and poem tell of the rescue of a ship called "The Amphion" by the crew of the "Leonard J.", which included officer James Gurney of Owen Sound, and Earl Prior and Ron Nichols (both of Newfoundland).

References

External links

* [http://www.nfl.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/ccg/sheet14.htm Fisheries and Oceans Canada article about the Leonard J. Cowley]