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Irritating Posh Kid Hijinks: The Dreadnought Hoax

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The Dreadnought - The Most Powerful Battleship in the World

At around 1910, the HMS Hawk and the HMS Dreadnought were in a hoaxing feud. Enter English Irishman Horace Devere Cole. His maternal great grandfather is the Irish poet Sir Aubrey Devere. He almost died of diphtheria when he was 10. Surgeries were required to save his life,. But that meant that he couldn't really hear very well.

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