Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Gourdon HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities <p>The small museum houses the Maggie Law together with artefacts, archives and photographs of life in Gourdon and the fishing industry.</p> OpeningTime1 1400 - 1600 OpeningDate1 17/9/2011 IsNewThisYear Yes ID Google Panorama ID 11993 Refreshments No Street The street address William Street Postcode DD10 0LW Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Maggie Law Lifeboat Museum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived aberdeenshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 331 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.82644,-2.288589; Description An account of the resource <p>The Maggie Law was a shallow draught surfboat capable of assisting vessels having difficulty entering Gourdon harbour. It was built by subscription from local fishermen in 1890. Over 40 years service it saved the lives?of 36 fishermen.</p><p>The Maggie Law supplemented the RNLI Lifeboats which were based at Gourdon from 1878 until 1969, when it was decided coverage could be maintained by the lifeboats at Aberdeen and Montrose.?</p>