Hi Slug. yes he did thanks, he stayed with tugs until he eventually retired and the he lasted until he was 84, not a bad innings.
The picture below is of one of the tugs that he was on just after the war, she was the Ex Empire Susan re named Rumania, the picture was take in 1947 and she is towing the ex Inter state liner Camberra from Sydney harbour to Genoa it took four and a half months ,and that is my old dad on the foredeck