02818cam a22004093u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000340011324500320014724600330017926400510021230000470026333600260031033700260033633800360036249000680039850000310046650800540049752014510055153400600200265300180206265300340208065300210211465300230213565300250215865300560218370000390223983000680227885600430234699900190238978563UtSlPG20260610134825.0mcr n260607r20261922utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aSleath, Frederick,d1889-196614aThe judgment of Johan Coull1 aThe judgement of Johan Coull 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the January 1922 issue of Wayside Tales magazine.  aRelease date is 2026-04-28  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  aThe judgment of Johan Coull by Frederick Sleath is a nautical short story written in the early 20th century. It follows North Sea salvors who uncover a wartime mystery involving a famed whaling captain, German submarines, and a ghostly, weed-draped ship; the likely topic is the moral reckoning and revenge born from submarine atrocities at sea.

A salvage crew aboard the Seabird, led by Big Jim Martin, anchors over a sunken liner and stumbles on five intact German U‑boats and the wreck of an Arctic Line freighter tied to the loss of Johan Coull’s son. In a breathless dawn calm, a phosphorescent, weed-covered vessel rises: the Arctic Belle, Coull’s own whaler. Securing her with pontoons and pumps, the men find unsettling clues—women’s cabins, a full courtroom rigged in the hold, a hanged skeleton aloft, and a compartment of chained men drowned—suggesting Coull had captured U‑boat crews to judge them for crimes after his boy’s death. Deeper in, they discover Coull dead at a broken door and, inside, a German sailor and a girl dead in each other’s arms beside auger holes that scuttled the ship; Big Jim infers she freed her lover, who sabotaged boats and pumps and chose to sink with her, thwarting Coull’s “trial.” In somber respect, the salvors strip their gear and let the Arctic Belle settle back into the sea, leaving the grim judgment and its secrets buried. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cChicago, IL: H. H. Windsor, 1922  aShort stories  aSubmarines (Ships) -- Fiction  aShips -- Fiction  aSalvage -- Fiction  aNorth Sea -- Fiction  aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Fiction1 aStoops, Herbert Morton,d1887-1948 0aProduced from the January 1922 issue of Wayside Tales magazine.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78563  c119281d119281