Commanders of the Royal Canadian Navy Director of the Naval Service (DNS) Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill 05 May 1910 to 31 December 1920 Commodore First Class Walter Hose 01 January 1921 to 06 March 1928 Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Commodore First Class Walter Hose, Kt 06 March 6, 1928 to 3` December 1933 Vice-Admiral Percy W. Nelles, CBE 01 January 1, 1934 to 15 January 1944 Vice-Admiral George Clarence Jones, CB 15 January 15, 1944 to 28 February 1946 Vice-Admiral Howard Emerson Reid, CB 28 February 28, 1946 to 01 September 1947 Vice-Admiral Harold Taylor Wood Grant, CBE, DSO, CD 01 September 1947 to 01 December 1951 Vice-Admiral Edmund Rollo Mainguy, OBE, CD 01 December to 16 January 1956 Vice-Admiral Harry George DeWolf, CBE, DSO, DSC, CD 16 January 1956 to 01 August 1960 Vice-Admiral Herbert Sharples Rayner, DSC & Bar 01 August 1960 to 01 August 1964 Principal Naval Adviser (PNA) Vice-Admiral Kenneth Lloyd Dyer, DSC, CD 01 August 1964 to 16 July 1966 Vice-Admiral Ralph Lucien Hennessy, DSC, CD 16 July 1966 to 15 September 1968 Commander of Maritime Command (Commander MARCOM) Rear-Admiral William Moss Landymore, OBE, CD 01 January 1966 to 19 July 1966 Vice-Admiral John Charles O'Brien, OC, CD 19 July 1966 to 06 July 1970 Vice-Admiral Henry Allan Porter, CMM, CD 06 July 1970 to 18 October 1971 Rear-Admiral Robert Walter Timbrell, CMM, DSC, CD 18 October 1971 to 21 August 1973 Vice-Admiral Douglas Seaman Boyle, CMM, CD 21 August 1973 to 14 June 1977 Vice-Admiral Andrew Laurence Collier, CMM, DSC, CD 15 June 1977 to 30 June 1979 Vice-Admiral John Allan, CMM, OStJ, CD 01 July 1979 to 06 August 1980 Vice-Admiral John Andrew (‘Andy’) Fulton, CMM, OStJ, CD 06 August 1980 to 29 July 1983 Vice-Admiral James Crilly Wood, CMM, OStJ, CD 29 July 1983 to 03 July 1987 Vice-Admiral Charles Morris Winton Thomas, CMM, CD 03 July 1987 to 01 August 1989 Vice-Admiral Robert Earl George, CMM, CD 01 August 1989 to 12 July 1991 Vice-Admiral John Rogers Anderson, CMM, CD 12 July 1991 to 14 July 1992 Vice-Admiral Peter William Cairns, CMM, CD 14 July 1992 to 28 July 1994 Vice-Admiral Lawrence Edward Murray, CM, CMM, MStJ, CD 28 July 1994 to 27 June 1995 Vice-Admiral Lynn Gordon Mason, CMM, MStJ, CD 27 June 1995 to 09 January 1997 Vice-Admiral Gary Leslie Garnett, CMM, MStJ, CD 09 January 1997 to 15 May 1997 1 Commander Maritime Command and Chief of the Maritime Staff (CMS) Vice-Admiral Gary Leslie Garnett, CMM, CD May 15, 1997 to September 24, 1997 Vice-Admiral Gregory Ralph Maddison, CMM, MSC, CD September 24, 1997 to June 21, 2001 Vice-Admiral Ronald Douglas Buck, CMM, CD June 21, 2001 to August 25, 2004 Vice-Admiral Malcolm Bruce MacLean, CMM, CD August 25, 2004 to January 17, 2006 Vice-Admiral Drew William Robertson, CMM, MStJ, MSM, CD January 17, 2006 to June 22, 2009 Vice-Admiral Philip Dean McFadden, CMM, CD June 22, 2009 to July 22, 2011 Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy and Chief of the Naval Staff (CRCN) Vice-Admiral Paul Andrew Maddison, CMM, CD 16 August 2011 to 21 June 2013 Vice-Admiral Mark Arnold Gordon Norman, CMM, CD 21 June 2013 to 23 June 2016 Vice-Admiral Maurice Francis Ronald Lloyd, CMM, CD 23 June 2016 to present Note: Much of the details in the biographies have been taken from the web site Nauticapedia http://www.nauticapedia.ca 2 .