Helm

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"I'll have my navigator to the helm."

―Hector Barbossa^[src]

The helm was the steering mechanism aboard a ship. A person operating the helm was called helmsman.

A ship's helm generally took the form of a wheel, with eight wooden spokes that were joined at a central hub. Wrapped around the steering drum was a long rope, which dropped below deck and was connected to the tiller—a horizontal bar fitted to the rudder. As the wheel was turned, the rudder swung in the desired direction. Some ships had a double wheel that allowed two people to take the helm in severe weather. Smaller ships often lacked a wheel, instead having the helmsman turn the tiller directly.

Behind the scenes

"Heading, Captain?"
"Two degrees starboard—"
"I'm captain of the starboard side! Two degrees starboard. The captain will now take the helm."

―Joshamee Gibbs, Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa^[src]

In a deleted scene from the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, titled "Two Captains, One Ship", Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa had a comical fight over the captaincy of the Black Pearl as they journeyed through the endless seas of Davy Jones' Locker. This scene was also included in T.T. Sutherland's junior novelization.

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Helm

Behind the scenes

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