Ann Davison Ann Davison Ann Davison (1914 – 1992) was, at the age of 39, the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean. She departed Plymouth, England in her 23-foot boat "Felicity Ann" on 18 May 1952. She landed in Brittany, Portugal, Morocco and the Canary Islands, before setting sail across the Atlantic on 20 November 1952, aiming to make land-fall in Antigua. In the event storms pushed her south and having been driven past Barbados she eventually touched land in Dominica on 23 January 1953. After an extended stopover in the Caribbean she sailed north to Florida and finally to
Madge Davison return to college to study law, but her plans were cut short by her death from cancer in 1991. She left a husband and two sons. After her death, the Madge Davison prize at Queen's University, Belfast was established in her honour. Madge Davison Madge Davison (13 June 1950 – 27 January 1991) was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland in the 1970s and was the first general secretary of the Connolly Youth Movement after it became an all-Ireland body in 1970. She came from a working-class Protestant background in the Shore Road