&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:USS_Aeolus_(ARC-3)_underway_at_sea,_circa_in_the_1960s.jpg) Aeolus
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| Name | Aeolus |
| Namesake | Aeolus, Greek god of winds |
| Builder | Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island |
| Laid down | 29 March 1945 |
| Launched | 20 May 1945 |
| Recommissioned | 14 March 1955 |
| Decommissioned | 1 October 1973 |
| In service | 1 October 1973 |
| Out of service | May 1985 |
| Reclassified | T-ARC-3 1973 |
| Stricken | 28 March 1985 |
| Motto | Ubique (Latin: "Everywhere") |
| Fate | Sunk as artificial reef 29 July 1988 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Artemis-class attack cargo ship |
| Type | S4–SE2–BE1 |
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| Length | 438 ft (134 m) |
| Beam | 58 ft (18 m) |
| Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion | Turbo-electric, two shafts |
| Speed | 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph) |
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USS Aeolus (ARC-3) began service as USS Turandot (AKA-47), an Artemis-class attack cargo ship built by the Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island. In 1954 she was converted into a cable repair ship to support Project Caesar, the unclassified name for installation of the Sound Surveillance System SOSUS. Aeolus was the first of two ships, the other being USS Thor (ARC-4), to be converted into cable ships. Aeolus performed cable duties for nearly thirty years, from 1955 to 1973 as a commissioned ship and from 1973 until 1985 as the civilian crewed USNS Aeolus (T-ARC-3) of the Military Sealift Command (MSC). The ship was retired in 1985 and sunk as an artificial reef in 1988.