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GEORGE
D. COWIE
Coast
and Geodetic Survey Ship COWIE. This vessel was named in
honor of Commander George D. Cowie, former head of the
Philippine Coast Survey, who was killed in a Japanese bombing
raid on Manila in late 1941.
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Twin
diesel, length 103 feet, beam 18.5 feet, draft 6.8 feet. Built by
Great Lakes Boat Building Company, Chicago, Illinois, as a yacht named
RHEA III. In 1941 this vessel was purchased for $25,000 from Frank
Wilson of Belfast, Maine. Sold in 1962 to Hurst and Watson for $5007.11.
The vessel was originally meant to be re-named the PERKINS, for Coast
and Geodetic Survey officer Frank Wally Perkins, but was renamed the
COWIE in early 1942 in honor of Commander George D. Cowie (1888-1941),
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, who was killed in a bombing
raid on Manila on Christmas Eve, 1941.
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