USS Aeolus (ID-3005) USS Aeolus (ID-3005) USS "Aeolus" (ID-3005), sometimes also spelled Æolus, was a United States Navy transport ship during World War I. She was formerly the North German Lloyd liner SS "Grosser Kurfürst, also spelled Großer Kurfürst", launched in 1899 that sailed regularly between Bremen and New York. At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the United States and, when the U.S. entered the conflict in 1917, was seized and converted to a troop transport. Originally commissioned as USS "Grosser Kurfürst", the ship was renamed "Aeolus" — after the god of wind in Greek mythology —
HMS Aeolus (1801) the third ship in the Navy to be named "Aeolus". The first, also a 32-gun fifth rate (launched in 1758), was still in existence but had been reduced to harbour service in 1796 and renamed "Guernsey" in 1800 to free the name for the new ship. Then a squadron captured the French frigate "Pallas", which received the name "Aeolus". In the meantime, "Guernsey" was sold in May 1801, shortly after the third "Aeolus" had completed fitting out the previous month, at Deptford Dockyard. The second "Aeolus" was then renamed to "Pique". "Aeolus" was at first employed on convoy duties and