CCGS Leonard J. Cowley

CCGS Leonard J. Cowley is a high endurance all weather, offshore ice strengthened multi patrol vessel of the Canadian Coast Guard.

Layout
Leonard J. Cowley is said to share design elements with the Republic of Ireland's Róisín class Patrol Craft. She was built in 1984 and underwent a modernization in 1996. Leonard J. Cowley has a hangar and flight deck capable of operating a Eurocopter BO-105 helicopter.



Service
She is mostly used for fishery patrol off Newfoundland and Labrador. She is named for Canada's first Minister of Marine and Fisheries.

On February 22, 2009, the vessel was instrumental in rescuing the crew of the FV Monte Galineiro.

CGS St. John's
Vessels at this base:


 * CCGS Pierre Radisson - icebreaker
 * CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent - icebreaker
 * CCGS Cygnus - patrol vessel
 * CCGS Henry Larsen - icebreaker
 * CCGS George R. Pearkes - icebreaker
 * CCGS Ann Harvey
 * CCGS Sir Wilfred Grenfell
 * CCGS Terry Fox
 * CCGS Wilfred Templeman

Popular culture
Bryan Williston of the Canadian folk band 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).