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100 1 _aSleath, Frederick,
_d1889-1966
245 1 4 _aThe judgment of Johan Coull
246 1 _aThe judgement of Johan Coull
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from the January 1922 issue of Wayside Tales magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-28
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cChicago, IL: H. H. Windsor, 1922
653 _aShort stories
653 _aSubmarines (Ships) -- Fiction
653 _aShips -- Fiction
653 _aSalvage -- Fiction
653 _aNorth Sea -- Fiction
653 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Fiction
700 1 _aStoops, Herbert Morton,
_d1887-1948
830 0 _aProduced from the January 1922 issue of Wayside Tales magazine.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78563
999 _c119281
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