Their boat crashed against rocks in southern England, leading to Frank Davison's death the following morning.
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.
[5] In her first book, Last Voyage, she describes her life in the early 1930s as an aviator, delivering mail around the UK, and her marriage to Frank Davison, another aviator, with whom she worked at a small commercial airfield at Hooton, Wirral Peninsula, which had to be closed at the start of World War II.
[6] The boat, which was alongside at Fleetwood, Lancashire, required more refurbishment than anticipated and Frank was unwilling to compromise on standards.
Debts grew, and with a writ of repossession about to be nailed to the mast, Ann and Frank hurriedly set sail for the West Indies, with the boat unfinished, and into the teeth of a gale.
She spent her final years in relative obscurity, residing on a ranch in Lorida, Florida where she raised exotic cats with her second husband.
In 2017 a blue plaque recognising Davison was unveiled at Mere Brook House (where she lived from 1939) which is near Thornton Hough, Wirral.