HMS Hurworth
HMS Hurworth is a Hunt-Class Mine Countermeasures Vessel based in HMNB Portsmouth as part of the Second Mine Countermeasures Squadron. She continues to play a vital part in the Royal Navy’s worldwide MCMV commitments, in a variety of diverse theatres from the Middle East to the North Atlantic.
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HMS Hurworth
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HMS Hurworth
Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group 1 is one of NATOâs two specialist mine countermeasures groups; it consists of the Command Ship HMS Roebuck (UK) and five other mine hunters, BNS Primula (Belgium), FGS Wielheim (Germany), LVNS Imanta (Latvia), HNLMS Schiedam (The Netherlandsâ) and another from the UK, HMS Hurworth. On Tuesday 8th April a Media Day held off the coast of Zeebrugge, Belgium gave an opportunity to go to sea aboard one of the mine hunters and see actual bomb disposal. This provided an exciting demonstration of destroying the mines that litter the seaways. Mines from the First and Second World War will be located and destroyed in the North Sea. This operation reduces the risk from historical ordnance to shipping, commercial and fishery activities, especially to cockle fishing with trawls and dredges in this allocated area. The Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group has been working together for almost three months, in this time they have developed a high degree of interoperability, teamwork and specialist expertise, using similar procedures and using the NATO language.POA(Phot) "Brad" BradburyFor further information Please contact:-Public Information Office,Atlantic Building,MCC Northwood,Northwood,Middlesex,HA6 3HP.Phone:-+44(0) 1923 843763
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HMS Hurworth
PORTSMOUTH MINEHUNTER BOUND FOR THE BALTICPortsmouth-based warship HMS Hurworth left the Naval Base today (8 Jan) bound for a minehunting mission in the Baltic Sea and northern Europe.The Hunt-class minehunter will spend four and-a-half months working within a Nato task force comprising ships from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland and Norway.The task group â known as Standing Nato Mine Countermeasures Group 1 â is Natoâs immediate reaction force, ready to deploy anywhere in the region at short notice.
As such, HMS Hurworth and her Ship’s Company maintains a high state of readiness though a rigorous training and maintenance programme to ensure she is ready to undertake Operations at very short notice.
The types of Operation MCMVs can be deployed on could include protecting lawful maritime enterprise in the Gulf, responding rapidly to developing international crises, or ensuring that the UK’s sea lanes remain safe and secure.
Along with her sister ships, she boasts a world-leading mine disposal system, Seafox, which is the most proficient system of its type ever invented, making HMS Hurworth and the Royal Navy’s MCMV contingent the envy other navies across the globe.
COMMANDING OFFICER
Eleanor Stack
- RANK:
- Lieutenant Commander
- JOINED:
- 2000
- SPECIALISATION:
- Warfare
- PREVIOUS UNITS:
- HMS Dauntless, HMS Daring
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.
OPERATIONS
Exercise Joint Warrior 131
CURRENT STATUS: COMPLETED
Joint Warrior (JW) Exercises are planned and conducted by the Joint Tactical Exercise Planning Staff (JTEPS) based at Headquarters Northwood. JTEPS which is a joint organisation parented by both HQ Air Command & Navy Command (NCHQ).
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KEY STATISTICS
- Pennant
M39
- Displacement
685tonnes
- Complement
45personnel
- Length
60Metres
- Beam
10metres
- Draught
3.4metres
- Top Speed
15knots
- Range (Nautical)
1500miles
- Launch Date
25/09/84
- Commissioned date
02/07/85
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