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) HMS Aeolus (1801) HMS "Aeolus" was a 32-gun "Amphion"-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1801 and served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812. Ordered during the last years of the French Revolutionary Wars, "Aeolus" was at first engaged in convoy work, before being sent out to the West Indies, where she took part in operations off Saint-Domingue and blockaded the French ships in the harbours. She was involved in the chase of the 74-gun "Duquesne" after she put to sea, and assisted in her capture. "Aeolus" returned to operate