a raised part of the interior housing inside steering and engine controls, usually with an adjacent navigation center and a convenient sea berths

The enclosed area on the deck or bridge from which the vessel is controlled when underway.

Enclosure on the bridge containing the steering controls.

a small cabin on the deck of the ship that protects the steering wheel and the crewman steering.

A pilothouse is a small, glass-enclosed room on top of the texas from which a ship is controlled. The steering wheel, compass, engine order telegraph, and chart table are located here. On many ships, especially military and cruise ships, the pilothouse is considerably larger and combined with a number of other control structures as the ship's bridge.