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It can be tempting to wonder if a military branch really needs its commandant, if a helmless Marine Corps really is a crisis.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2023

He quoted the swashbuckling versifier François Villon: To Messire Noel, named the neat By those who love him, I bequeath A helmless ship, a houseless street, A wordless book, a swordless sheath.

From Time Magazine Archive

Balance is everything, riding out time like a helmless sheep-boat, keel to hellward, mast upreared to prick out heaven’s eye.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

"Angela, believe me, you are drifting helmless in perilous waters," Denzil urged, while she stood beside him in mute distress.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

For more than twenty years I have been tossed about as a helmless vessel, without compass or reckoning.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various