incurred with her husband in re-furbishing a 70-foot ketch, "Reliance". which they bought at the end of the Second World War with the aim of crossing the Atlantic and a new life. 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. But the main part of the book, and the title, is about their ill-fated purchase of Reliance. 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. After intense hardship, first blown down the Irish Sea then to the East along the English Channel, they were wrecked on the east side of Portland Bill on 4 June 1949, where he drowned. Ann Davison managed to scramble ashore. Her second book, Home was an Island, describes their life after the sale of their airfield and before the purchase of Reliance, during which time they bought and farmed the small islands of Inchmurrin and then Inchfad on Loch Lomond. Her autobiographical account was published as My Ship is so Small. Later life Davison settled in Florida and married Bert Billheimer, a former Miami Herald photographer. The coupe shared an interest in boats, but Davison sold the Felicity Ann and gave up solo sailing, stating in her book My Ship Is So Small that she “ knew what single-handed sailing was like now, the experience was complete”. She spent her final years in relative obscurity, residing on a ranch in Lorida, Florida where she raised exotic cats with her second husband. Davison died on May 12, 1992. She was 78. Legacy and commemoration The Felicity Ann, built by Mashford Bros of Cremyll (Cornwall) in 1939, has recently (2008–2009) been in private possession in Haines, Alaska undergoing initial restoration, but has now been donated to the Northwest School of Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, Washington for further restoration. The original design for the Felicity Ann and three other identical hulls are