[Paul Riley]

Interesting point.I asked someone the same thing ages ago about the helmsman skill,because I used to appoint the WO in the control room as a helmsman (I wanted to max out the helmsmen available to try to decrease dive times when under air attack!),but was later told that the extra skills in helmsman are not taken into account,therefore rendered useless.He would probably be better suited as a medic or torpedoman in that case.
Stick around,someone will clarify this for you.