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* The 18-grun brig Rattlesnake commanded by Commander Terence O ' Brien in Frederick Marryat's Peter Simple.
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* February 17 – The uninhabited Lord Howe Island is discovered by the brig HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who is on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there.
The incident that gave its name to the war had occurred in 1731 when the British brig Rebecca was boarded by the Spanish coast guard La Isabela, commanded by Julio León Fandiño.
The brig Linnet, commanded by Pring, reached the head of the American line and opened a raking fire against the USS Eagle.
During the Mexican-American War, he commanded the brig USS Somers in the Gulf of Mexico.
The British John Pascoe Grenfell, who commanded the brig Don Miguel, obtained the surrender of Belem do Para.
Promoted to Master Commandant on 27 April 1816 for his services during the war, Wadsworth commanded the brig Prometheus in the Mediterranean Squadron after the Second Barbary War in 1816 and 1817 and later commanded the sloop John Adams.
Downes was promoted to master commandant in 1813, and two years later commanded the brig, in the squadron employed against Algiers under Stephen Decatur.
Following the battle, Nelson sent his report to London, taking the precaution of sending a duplicate in the brig, commanded by Lieutenant Thomas Capel.
Durham commanded the small brig HMS Spitfire when he captured the French privateer Afrique and he moved between several ships before bringing in a convoy of 157 merchant ships from the Mediterranean in the frigate HMS Hind in the face of enemy opposition.
The Espirito Santo was joined on 23 January 1820 by the American brig Hersilia commanded by Captain James Sheffield ( with first mate Elof Benson and second mate Nathaniel Palmer ), the first American sealer in the South Shetlands.
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Not a man on the brig, loyal or villainous, could be unaffected by the sight of seven men involved in the crime of mutiny.
Poe's regiment was posted to Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina and traveled by ship on the brig Waltham on November 8, 1827.
In December 1857, Charles Scammon, in the brig Boston, along with his schooner-tender Marin, entered Laguna Ojo de Liebre ( Jack-Rabbit Spring Lagoon ) or later known as Scammon's Lagoon ( by 1860 ) and found one of the gray's last refuges.
With less than 200 men, Miaoulis was unable to make much of a fight ; Fort Heidek on Bourtzi Island was overrun by the regulars and the brig Spetses ( once Laskaria Bouboulina's Agamemnon ) sunk by Richord's force.
In 1859, Palmyra Atoll was claimed for the United States by Dr. Gerrit P. Judd of the brig Josephine, in accordance with the Guano Islands Act of 1856, but there was no guano there to be mined.
In the Voyager episode, " Non Sequitur ," Tom Paris ' alternate self ( in the parallel dimension ) relates to Harry Kim a story about how, during a stop at Deep Space Nine, he got in a bar fight with a Ferengi and was thrown in the brig by " a very unpleasant shapeshifter ", obviously referring to Odo.
* December 4 – The now-crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found ( still seaworthy ) by the British brig Dei Gratia.
In November 1830 Te Rauparaha persuaded Captain John Stewart of the brig Elizabeth to carry him and his warriors in secret to Akaroa, where by subterfuge they captured the leading Ngāi Tahu chief, Te Maiharanui, and his wife and daughter.
Returning home from the West Indies in command of the brig Rebecca in April 1731, Jenkins ' ship was stopped and boarded by the Spanish guarda-costa La Isabela on suspicion of smuggling.
In the narrow technical field of sailing rigs, a brig is distinct from a three-masted ship by virtue of only having two masts.
* The cargo hauling brig Farmer owned by George Washington.
* The brig USS Niagara captained by commander Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, a pivotal victory for the United States in the War of 1812.
* The brig Rebecca captained by Robert Jenkins whose boarding triggered the War of Jenkins ' Ear.
* The brig Sea Hawk in The Pirate of the Mediterranean by William Henry Giles Kingston.
* The brig Interceptor in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ( portrayed by the brig Lady Washington ).
* The brig Enterprise in the film Star Trek Generations ( portrayed by the brig Lady Washington ).
* The brig HMS Sophie in Master and Commander by Patrick O ' Brian.
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For instance, Commander William Layman of the ill-fated Cruizer-class brig sloop HMS Raven replaced her two forward 6-pounder guns and 32-pounder carronades with a single 68-pounder on a pivot, and then did the same with two of the aft 32-pounder carronades.
# Commander Marr of the South Carolina brig, and not U. S. Secretary Rumsfeld, should have been named as the respondent to the petition.
The following year he was promoted to Commander and set sail for China aboard the brig, but was forced to return home and give up his command because of severe illness.
In 1812, as Lieutenant and Commander of the brig Rénard before Genoa, he received the order to convey 14 munitions-laden cargo vessels to Toulon.
As a result of this action, Commander Adama has her removed from power and thrown in the brig for breaking their agreement and interfering in military matters.
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* 1834: Convicts evacuating Macquarie Harbour capture brig Frederick and sail to Chile
Campbell Island was discovered in 1810 by Captain Frederick Hasselborough of the sealing brig Perseverance, which was owned by shipowner Robert Campbell's Sydney-based company Campbell & Co. ( whence the island's name ).
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* The brig Jolly Roger, a pirate ship of Captain Hook from James M. Barrie's Peter Pan.
Here at Lamlash on April 25th 1829 part of the clearance ( 86 souls ) when embarking on the brig Caledonia ( 196 ton ) the Rev. A. Mackay preached from The Mound ( opposite ) formed by the departing his text " Casting all your care upon him: for he careth for you " 1st Peter ch. 5 v. 7.
The 10 founding members were: Philip Spencer ( later hanged on charges of mutiny aboard the brig USS Somers ), Robert Heyward McFaddin, Jacob Henry Farrell, John Brush Jr., Samuel Titus Taber, James Lafayette Witherspoon ( cousin of McFaddin ), William Force Terhune, Alexander Peter Berthoud, James Chatham Duane, and Patrick Upshaw Major.
They make a last-ditch attempt to intimidate Highway with " Swede " Johanson ( Peter Koch ), a gigantic, heavily-muscled Marine just released from the brig, but their plan fails miserably and they eventually begin to shape up and develop esprit de corps.
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On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.
" Shortly afterwards, Nelson paused to speak with the brig HMS Mutine, whose commander Lieutenant Thomas Hardy had seized some maritime pilots from a small Alexandrine vessel.
Despite strenuous efforts from the Culloden < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boats, the brig Mutine and the 50-gun HMS Leander under Captain Thomas Thompson, the ship of the line could not be moved, and the waves drove Culloden further onto the shoal, inflicting severe damage to the ship's hull.
Syn returned to England on the night of a storm that wrecked his brig off the English coast in sight of Dymchurch.
Allen was first placed aboard, a brig anchored at Montreal.
The British gun brig Nancy was sent to rescue the survivors.
After passing his examinations in 1752, he soon progressed through the merchant navy ranks, starting with his promotion in that year to mate aboard the collier brig Friendship.
The first Western record of the atoll was on September 2, 1796 when the American brig Sally accidentally grounded on a shoal near the islands.
At an Ohio history festival, 19th century style brig warship USS Niagara passes the Lorain, Ohio | Lorain lighthouse.
Among the ships that sailed were the barques Clio, Belle and Voluna ; and the brig Dalusia.
In the episode " Thirty Days ", while disobeying direct orders in order to do what he felt was morally right, he was reduced to ensign and thrown in Voyager < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s brig for a period of 30 days.
* 12-gun schooner / 14-gun brig ( 17 December 1799 – 9 July 1823 ), the third ship to bear this name, was built as schooner, and later rerigged as a brig.
* February 19 – Captain William Smith in British merchant brig Williams sights Williams Point, the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetlands, the first land discovered south of latitude 60 ° S.
*, was a brig launched in 1842 and sunk in 1846.
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