Allegiance Canada Rank Vice admiral Role Commanding officer | Name Lynn Mason Years of service 1960-1997 | |
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Service/branch Royal Canadian Navy
Canadian Forces Commands held HMCS Iroquois
Fifth Canadian Destroyer Squadron
Standing Naval Force Atlantic
Canadian Forces College
Maritime Forces Atlantic
Maritime Command Awards Order of Military Merit, Canadian Forces Decoration | ||
Vice-Admiral Lynn Gordon Mason CMM, CD (born 1942) is a retired officer of the Canadian Forces. He was Commander Maritime Command from 1995 to 1997.
Career
Mason joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1960. He became Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMCS Iroquois in 1981, Commander of the Fifth Canadian Destroyer Squadron in 1985 and Commander of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic in 1987. He went on to be Commandant of the Canadian Forces College in 1988, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1989 and Chief of Maritime Doctrine and Operations at National Defence Headquarters in 1991. He then became Chief of Staff to the Maritime Commander in 1992, Commander Maritime Forces Atlantic in 1992 and Deputy Chief of Defence Staff in 1994. His last appointment was as Commander Maritime Command in 1995 before retiring in 1997.
In retirement he became Chief Executive of CarteNav Solutions.