pilot house

noun

nautical an enclosed structure on the bridge of a vessel from which it can be navigated; wheelhouse

The same shot knocked an iron plate from the top of the pilot-house and let in the daylight in a flood.

"The shock threw him against the pilot-house wall and fractured his skull—he died in an hour," he said.

On the sides, on the turret, and on the pilot-house were indentations like saucers, but there was no sign of serious damage.

He heard something hum past his head and plunk into the pilot house behind him.

"Watch for that steamer's red light off to starboard," warned a business-like voice from the blackness of the pilot-house.

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