The 1975 mutiny that inspired The Hunt for Red October had a radically different motive than the fiction it spawned. -The real-life figure was Valery Sablin, a Soviet naval political officer and ...

Lt. Angelo Belloni seized control of submarine F-43 at the Muggiano shipyards near La Spezia, Italy. The coastal submarine, originally built for the Russian Navy and designated to become the Svyatoi ...