Johansen, Gustav

   In “The Call of Cthulhu,” the Norwegian second mate of the schooner Emma. He is the sole survivor of the ship’s crew and is rescued, on board the Alert,which his crew had boarded after their own vessel was sunk in a melee with that ship’s crew. Thurston, the narrator, learns of his experience in a chance newspaper article, and when Thurston seeks him in Oslo, he finds that, like Prof. Angell, he has died under mysterious circumstances. Johansen’s diary describes his crew’s encounter with Cthulhu.