we are now in the pilothouse.he pilothouse, often called the wheelhouse, is where the command decisions are made to operate a commercial vessel. a captain, a first mate would be in here, as well as some other junior officers who would assist the captain with navigation, steering of the vessel, communicating with the engine room with respect to how fast they wanted the boat to go. or in what direction. kind of command central of operating a 20th-century great lakes boat carrier. here we have your standard wheel, which will steer the boat. the schoonmaker has two wheels. it has one, a wholly separate emergency system on board. a compass, basic navigation required. as technology improved, sometimes the old technology was kept. so not only will you have a simple compass but a gyro repeating compass as well. when radar is introduced in the great lakes here and here, radar is introduced after world war ii , and that vastly improves the ability of the boat to see what is coming in its direction as well as the most iconic

we are on the pilothouse deck of the colonel james m. schoonmaker ship, the national museum of the great lakes. the schoonmaker was a commercial freighter when it was built in 1911 until it went into long-term layup in the 1980's. it became a museum ship when the city purchased it from the owner around 1987. her main purpose was to deliver iron ore from lake superior down to lake erie to places like ohio where it was unloaded and put in railroad cars and taken to pittsburgh for a furnace company, which owned a fleet of boats, in order to support its steelmaking business. at the time, it was the largest carrier. it could carry more bulk material than any other from 1911 to 1927. which was a very long time when every year a new boat came out that was a little bit longer. because this boat was built so wide, it could carry more cargo for 16 years than any other boat constructed between that time. we are now in the pilothouse. often called the wheelhouse. it is where command's decisions were made to operate a commercial vessel. a captain, a

so, i'm up in the pilothouse, one of my crewmembers came up to me and said we have a problem, the korean marines went to rape these women. i said what? he said yeah, they were eyeing them over. making motions and all of this. i said whoa. so, i went up to the sergeants, he was the senior ranking guy. and i'm trying to speak to him in english, sending you, women, no touch. and no english. and i said no touch. and, the other guys, the enlisted men, i can see the getting angry now. the sergeants is trying to, even though he doesn't speak english, he understood wells trying to say. now, he is getting confrontational. so i told my crewmembers, i said put the weapons on them. put them on them. and it was tense. very tense. they were determined that there were going to have their way. and i was determined that work. we made them, that's remit a whole and, i told the sergeant, you touch women, i said your captain, i have say enough. and, so anyway we got there. and i reported the sergeant at his troops to our intelligence people, and they reported wherever it went, i have no idea what happened a