The 1965 deployment was somewhat marred by the refusal of the New Zealand Ministry of External Affairs and British ambassadors to allow "Royalist" to dock with RN ships at Tokyo or Yokohama. According to the Royal Navy attaché in Tokyo, the RNZN sailors "could not afford the one pound per minute price in the Ginza nightclubs and bars." The captain of "Royalist", J.P. Vallant replied to the Deputy Secretary of Defence in Wellington, "find it quaint that ... the New Zealand navy is persona non grata in the Tokyo Bay area." "Royalist" was confined to the Japanese provincial ports with New Zealand diplomats persuading the local police chiefs against a curfew and to keep bars open 24 hours. After further shore leave in Bangkok, Singapore, and Subic Bay, "Royalist" returned to New Zealand, after a valiant repair of a milking boiler and turbine en route. It was unable to make its final scheduled 1966 visit for Waitangi Day and tour of the New Zealand ports, and was effectively paid off five months early.