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The Red October was a Russian missile submarine that was under the command of Captain Ramius. It was the largest submarine ever built by the Russians, weighting well over 30,000 tons, and longer then two football fields. It had a crew of 100 men and 15 officers. One of the memorable scenes was in chapter 11 “The Crown Jewels”, on page 238. This chapter is describing a mission by the SSN Parche. The sub was being sent out to retrieve a telephone-tapping it had previously installed on a submarine telephone line in the Barents Sea. This mission would not be conducted via the polar ice cap, as the previous one had been. This was done incase the Soviets were following the sub’s deployments and also due to suspected spy