A decision was reached to follow the RN’s MCM-COOP Plan to strengthen the RAN’s mine warfare role. The first three commercial vessels to be inducted as ‘Craft of Opportunity’, (COOP), were SALVATORE, KORAAGA, and WAVERIDER. They were classified as MSA(S), (minesweeper auxiliary small).
Australian Naval History on 30 July 1990
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