The State Shipping Service of Western Australia was a state government transport entity formed in 1912,[1] in Western Australia, primarily to service the ports of North West Australia.[2][3][4][5]
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, ISBN 978-0-9500952-3-3
- ^ Bennett, June; Royal Western Australian Historical Society (1968), The State Shipping Service: the adversities of operation from 1912–68, retrieved 27 December 2011
- ^ Walker, William; University of Western Australia. History Discipline Group; University of Western Australia. School of Humanities (2005), Western Australia's coastal shipping: the struggle for control 1863–1914, retrieved 27 December 2011
- ^ Western Australia. State Steamship Service (1912), Inauguration of the State Steamship Service : Souvenir, Government Printer, retrieved 26 January 2016
- ^ "AU WA A770 - State Steamships Service". State Records Office of WA. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
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