Ann Davison then Inchfad on Loch Lomond. In 2017 a blue plaque recognizing Ann was unveiled at Mere Brook House (where Ann lived from 1939) which is near Thornton Hough, Wirral. Davison had no children. 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
Madge Davison 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 area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was a member of several organisations in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s, including the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, for which she worked as a full-time organiser. In the late 1980s she decided to