Lifting yoke configured for supporting a load while suspended from a bearing wire ; said yoke comprising a frame extending about a bearing axis ; said yoke additionally comprising an orientation adjustment arrangement comprising at least two thrusters associated with an orientation control system ; said thrusters being controllable to adjust and/or stabilise the angular orientation of said yoke in a horizontal plane; wherein said load is an element of a wind turbine; wherein said yoke includes at least two steering arms each of which extends in mutually opposite directions away from said bearing axis and beyond said yoke frame ; and wherein each of said at least two thrusters is provided on a respective steering arm of said yoke ; wherein each said steering arm has a yoke interface at a proximal end thereof, and wherein a said thruster is arranged on said arm towards a distal end thereof, wherein each said steering arm has a collapsed configuration and an extended configuration in relation to said yoke , wherein each thruster is directionally reversible, capable of providing thrust in mutually opposite directions (A, B); and in that at least one said steering arm is retractable into a said collapsed configuration of said steering arm by means of a telescopic arrangement along said arm wherein the length of a steering arm extending beyond the yoke's frame when in a deployed configuration thereof, may be reduced by one third or more; further wherein said steering arm , when in its deployed configuration at a lifting yoke 10 extends in a horizontal plane away from the bearing axis by more than 60% of the distance from the bearing wire to the yoke frame perimeter. said yoke comprising a frame extending about a bearing axis ; said yoke additionally comprising an orientation adjustment arrangement comprising at least two thrusters associated with an orientation control system ; said thrusters being controllable to adjust and/or stabilise the angular orientation of said yoke in a horizontal plane; wherein said load is an element of a wind turbine; wherein said yoke includes at least two steering arms each of which extends in mutually opposite directions away from said bearing axis and beyond said yoke frame ; and wherein each of said at least two thrusters is provided on a respective steering arm of said yoke ; wherein each said steering arm has a yoke interface at a proximal end thereof, and wherein a said thruster is arranged on said arm towards a distal end thereof, wherein each said steering arm has a collapsed configuration and an extended configuration in relation to said yoke , wherein each thruster is directionally reversible, capable of providing thrust in mutually opposite directions (A, B); and in that at least one said steering arm is retractable into a said collapsed configuration of said steering arm by means of a telescopic arrangement along said arm wherein the length of a steering arm extending beyond the yoke's frame when in a deployed configuration thereof, may be reduced by one third or more; further wherein said steering arm , when in its deployed configuration at a lifting yoke 10 extends in a horizontal plane away from the bearing axis by more than 60% of the distance from the bearing wire to the yoke frame perimeter. <EOS>