Aeolus under construction at J. J. Sietas shipyard, Hamburg-Neuenfelde, 24.02.2013

This is a portside view.

Aeolus will be an offshore construction jack up for offshore wind farms of about 14,800 gt, overall length about 139 m and a breadth of about 38 m.

Aeolus is the first of that type of vessel to be designed and built in Germany and probably the last.

Her keel was laid on December 23, 2011, (yard/hull no. 1221) and she's being built for Van Oord.

Plans were to build two of these ships but Van Oord cancelled the second order due to the difficult situation of the offshore wind farm industry.