Look again at the first picture. The guys on the planes were called 'planesmen', and you can see both of them side-by-side, right behind the helmsman on the rudder wheel.
It wouldn't make much sense under normal conditions to have the captain in the control room and the helmsman a deck above him where orders have to be shouted to be heard.
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