John Voss
Male, Deceased Person
1858 – 1922
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Who was John Voss?
John Claus Voss was a German-Canadian sailor best known for sailing around the world in a modified dug-out canoe he named Tilikum. Initially a carpenter, Voss apprenticed on a ship voyaging around Cape Horn and thereafter lived primarily as a sailor. In 1901 Voss began his most noteworthy voyage with his friend Norman Luxton and ending alone in 1904. He chronicled this and other notable voyages in The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss.
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