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 —
Magnes (son of Aeolus) Magnes (son of Aeolus) In Greek mythology, Magnes (Ancient Greek: Μάγνης) was the eponym and first king of Magnesia. Magnes was the son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion and brother of Makednos. In Apollodorus' "Bibliotheca," Magnes was placed in the later generation of the Deucalionides, for this time he was the son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother to Aeolian progenitors: Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Perieres, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce and Perimede. He married an unnamed naiad that bore him Dictys and Polydectes. The mother and the sons later emigrated and colonized the island of Seriphos. Polydectes