SS Volo was a British steam cargo ship that was built on Tyneside in 1938 and sunk by a German U-boat in the Mediterranean Sea off North Africa in 1941. 23 people on board the Volo died as a result of the attack.
Building
Volo was one of a pair of sister ships that Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson of Newcastle upon Tyne built for Ellerman's Wilson Line Ltd. The first was SS Tasso, which Swan Hunter completed in February 1938. Volo was completed in April 1938.[1] Ellerman's registered both ships in Hull.[1] The line named Volo after the port of Volos in Thessaly, Greece, which is one of many Mediterranean ports with which the company traded.
Volo had six corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 115 sqft heating two 210 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 4043 sqft.[1]