Originally named the State Steamship Service,[6] it was renamed as the State Shipping Service in 1919,[7] and again in 1979 as Stateships.[8]
^State Shipping Service: 50th anniversary. Fremantle, W.A.: The Service, [1962] Information on the Service's 50th anniversary.
^STATE STEAMSHIPS SERVICE - 4 May 1912 – 31 Dec 1918
^Stephens, Alan Mitchell; Eric White Associates; State Shipping Service of Western Australia (1977), The stateships story: 1912–1977, Eric White Associates, ISBN978-0-9500952-3-3