Volo:
The S.S. Volo was a cargo ship of 1,587 Grt. built at Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne for Ellerman's Wilson Line Ltd., Hull. The ship was launched 15 February 1938 and completed in April of that same year. The ship was 86.5 meters in length, 12.3 meters in beam, with a single propeller and a crew compliment of 38 personnel.
On 28 December 1941, under the command of Master George Ronald Whitfield (MBE),the S.S. Volo was sailing from Tobruk to Alexandria in ballast with convoy ME-8 under the escort of HMS Legion and HMS Kipling. The convoy was attacked in the early morning by the German submarine U-75 (Helmuth Ringelmann). The U-75 reported that two ships of 9000 Grt. had been sunk and another ship of the convoy had been damaged. However, only the S.S. Volo had been hit and sunk approximately 45 miles northwest of Mersa Matruh at position 31.45N/26.48E (Grid CO-92) with the loss of the ship's master, 20 crew members, and three gunners. The remaining 9 crew members and five gunners were rescued by the British landing craft HMS LCT-11 and transported to Alexandria.

The U-75 was later sunk by the HMS Kipling after an approximately 2 and a half hour hunt.
UK
volo
Shipwrecks of Egypt Custom Products