HMS Hurworth

Military experience

Eleanor Stack was born in Glasgow in 1978 and joined the Royal Navy as a Warfare Officer in 2000 after achieving an MA(Hons) in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University. She completed her initial training in HMS Norfolk and HMS Ramsey. The highlight of the latter’s deployment to the Baltic was attending the Russian Northern Fleet’s Navy Days in Sevromorsk, acting as Cincfleet’s Flagship.

Following Junior Warfare Officers’ Course at MWS Collingwood, Eleanor joined HMS Manchester in 2003 as an OOW undertaking a 15 month appointment including BOST, an APT(N) deployment and EX Cold Winter in Norway. After completion of Preliminary Navigating Officers’ Course, she then joined HMS Lancaster in October 2004 for a 17 month appointment as OOW1. She was part of the team that brought the Ship out of refit and undertook BOST and Ex Joint Warrior in 2005 before experiencing the first part of the Agapanthe deployment with FNS Charles De Gaulle.

Eleanor’s next step was to tackle Fleet Navigating Officer’s Course before joining HMS York in the Mediterranean as the Navigating Officer, just weeks before participating in Operation Highbrow and Operation JINA in the Lebanon. After a varied and challenging 18 months as FNO, she then became the EA and Coord for ACOS(SSM) at NCHQ. During her time in Leach Building, she also worked for DACOS(AW) as part of the SC FCIG team assisting in the generation of HMS Lancaster and HMS St Albans in 2008.

On successful completion of ICSC(M) and PWO course, she joined HMS Daring for First of Class BOST. After 6 months as PWO(U), she took on the mantle of Operations Officer for the end of the C2X deployment and a significant regeneration period including a successful In Service Sea Viper Firing. After completion of AWO course, she then joined HMS Dauntless as AWO and was the lead officer and Operations Officer for the AURIGA 12 deployment.

She assumed Command of MCM2 Crew 7 and HMS Hurworth in April 2013 and, after Ex Joint Warrior and OST, will move with Crew 7 to assume Command of HMS Quorn in July 2013.

Eleanor lives with her husband, Alex, in Alverstoke and enjoys an active lifestyle playing tennis, skiing and hurtling down steep mountains on a bike.