The officers on duty would advise the helmsmen on their steering by means of an ingenious dial on a notched plate.
Two helmsmen always attended it, two men wearing hexagonal goggles and close-fitting leather helmets with high crests of curled wire.
The principal officers took each three shares, the gunners andhelmsmen two, and the soldiers and swabbers one; the Christian slaves received from 1½ to three shares apiece.
The homes of the farmers whose sons bleed on fields of battle, are invaded, their hearths threatened with desolation, and the helmsmen sip Champagne, paid for by the people!
If the tempest is not roaring, its signs are visible, and most of the helmsmen are blind or unsteady.
When I sent my ships after other Tyrian vessels to the west for silver, the helmsmen of that thief Hiram cast fire on them, tried to push them into a shallow.
In the Nile there are dangerous places through which no boat can pass safely; so the wisdom of the helmsmen avoids deadly whirlpools.
The proper helmsmen are the able and ordinary seamen.
The wheelhouse had collapsed like a card house; it had simply been blown away, and one of the helmsmen with it.
Already two men were clambering to the upper bridge to take the place of the helmsmen who were dead.
So our salvation lay totally in the hands of the mysterious helmsmen steering this submersible, and if it made a dive, we were done for!
It was a cabin measuring six feet square and closely resembling those occupied by the helmsmen of steamboats on the Mississippi or Hudson rivers.
I clung to the ship's side, and when I raised myself, half stunned and half blinded by the shock, I found that Himilco and one of the helmsmen had disappeared.
I was standing with Himilco and the two helmsmen over the stern cabin, when a sea, heavier than any we had yet encountered, swept clean across the deck.
They were the helmsmen whom he had replaced with his own officers at the steering tackles, while his first mate had been left in charge of handling the ship.
He was left alone to handle the ship while the pirate helmsmen stood by the great tiller.
The first mate of the Plymouth Adventure and his own two helmsmen saw what was taking place and they were of no mind to be cut off at the stern of the ship.
The poop was deserted in the twinkling of an eye, even to the pair of helmsmen and the officer of the watch.
He says also that the reason why the helmsmen do not wish to return is because they know that the Japanese are coming next year, and that the latter will force them to bring them here.
Antonio Lopez says that the helmsmen of the ship have told him that they and the pilot had consulted together as to the way of reaching Manila in the quickest time, and says that they will come by way of Liuteui.
An amicable meeting agreed to encourage as many open races as possible by withdrawing the restriction that owners and helmsmen should be members of the clubs.
The owner must insist on shipping a due proportion of old hands in each crew, and take care to train them as helmsmen and leadsmen.
The startled Don Custodio turned his head to see if there was any Indian within ear-shot, but fortunately those nearby were rustics, and the two helmsmen seemed to be very much occupied with the windings of the river.
The poop was deserted, save for two helmsmen in streaming oilskins under the half-shelter of the open wheel-house.
He knew I was there, for his big shoulder brushed my arm as he swayed and turned to warn the helmsmen in the one breath to hold her up to it but to keep her full.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "helmsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
