In December 1993, "Canberra" and the destroyer visited Langkawi, Malaysia, for the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition. During this assignment, ship's divers from "Canberra" assisted the Royal Malaysian Police in searching for and recovering the body of a merchant sailor who had fallen overboard from MV "Leisureworld". Following this, the two ships sailed for New Zealand, and were present in the Bay of Islands for Waitangi Day, which commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi there on 6 February 1840, which brought New Zealand into the British Empire.