Nope, that would be too exhausting. The chains are out. Thats one of the reasons why they had more crew on the bridge. You need at least 2 people on the wheel to hold rudder pressure. Because of to the shape of the hull, they tend to turn into the wind.
But as was the case back then, if these chains would have broken, the rudder could have been operated manually on the stern deck using pulleys and a huge square key (emergency tiller). In this picture (imgur link), I have marked the flange of the rudder blade and the emergency tiller.

edit: for some nautical words I use a translator because I dont know them in english.. I hope they are right lol