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Naval legend shone mobile around naval base to pen speech (7,6)

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I believe the answer is:

horatio nelson

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'naval legend' is the definition.
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'shone mobile around naval base to pen speech' is the wordplay.
'mobile' is an anagram indicator (mobile can mean moving).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'base' says to take the final letters (the base of the word).
'to pen' indicates putting letters inside.
'speech' becomes 'oration' (oration is a kind of speech).
The final letter of 'naval' is 'l'.
'shone' is an anagram of 'heson'.
'heson' enclosing 'l' is 'helson'.
'helson' placed around 'oration' is 'HORATIO NELSON'.

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(Other definitions for horatio nelson that I've seen before include "British admiral d. 21 October 1805" , "Hero having lost limb" , "naval man" , "British naval commander at Trafalgar" , "British naval hero" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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