John Voss (sailor)

John Clauss Voss (* 1858 in Moordiek Horst (Holstein), † 1922 in Victoria (British Columbia) ) was a German - Canadian sailors. He grew up in Schleswig -Holstein, where she learned the trade of ship carpenter. After his first trips he took Canadian citizenship and changed his name to John C. Voss.

He achieved fame primarily for his circumnavigation of the globe with the Tilikum, a converted dugout, from 1901-1904. About this and other voyages on small sailboats, he reported in the book, The Voyages of Captain Voss Some venture.

His life is also the theme of the fictional autobiography. For thou dollar by the world of Guild Werner, who grew up near Moordiek and learned from contemporaries Voss ' details about his youth, he einarbeitete in his book