Facts:   - caption: tilikum -lrb- boat -rrb- plaque    - death date: 1922      - birth date: 1858    - name: john claus voss    - image size: 250px    - image: tilikum plaque.jpg    - birth place: schleswig-holstein , germany    - occupation: ship captain   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john voss -lrb- sailor -rrb- .
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john -lrb- sometimes `` jack '' -rrb- claus voss -lrb- born johannes claus voss ; 1858 -- 1922 -rrb- was a german-canadian sailor best known for sailing around the world in a modified dug-out canoe he named tilikum -lrb- `` friend '' in chinook jargon -rrb- .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 '' .