Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Mason KCB (10 February 1779 – 27 May 1853) was a senior Royal Navy officer who temporarily commanded the Mediterranean Fleet from October 1841 to April 1842.
[2] Mason joined the Royal Navy on 23 May 1793.
He was given command of the sloop HMS Rattler in December 1803.
Promoted to post-captain he commanded, successively, the post ship HMS Daphne, in which he took part in the Walcheren Campaign in 1809, the fifth-rate HMS Fisgard, and the fifth-rate HMS President, in which he took part in the siege of San Sebastián in 1813.
He temporarily commanded the South America Station from July 1834 to September 1834 and temporarily commanded the Mediterranean Fleet from October 1841 to April 1842.