" 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.

* 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.

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.

Recently, Lady Washington has appeared in various films, portraying the HMS Interceptor in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and the brig Enterprise, a namesake of the Starship Enterprise, on the holodeck in Star Trek Generations.

* The brig HMS Badger, was the future Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's first command as a young lieutenant.

* The fourth Pickle was originally the slave-trading brig Eolo, captured in 1852 by HMS Orestes.

Shipbuilding was particularly significant between 1780 and 1850 with around 100 ships launched including a 12-gun Royal Navy brig called HMS Snap.

* The 200-ton brig named Adams was purchased during the summer of 1812 but captured by the British and renamed the HMS Detroit

* Comeet was the Dutch brig Komeet, captured in 1795, renamed HMS Penguin later that year or early the next, and sold in 1809.

* The third Gibraltar was an American 14-gun brig captured in 1779, then in turn captured by the Spanish in 1781 and renamed Salvador, then recaptured by HMS Anson in 1800.

* HMS Mohawk was the American navy's 12-gun brig Viper captured in 1813 and sold in 1814.

* HMS Liberty-sailing brig serving as a tender to Lion in 1901.

* HMS Pioneer was a 14-gun brig listed 1804 – 1807.

While Admiral Thornton is in Malta, Admiral Harte, Thornton's second-in-command, sends Jack and William Babbington, the latter commanding the brig HMS Dryad, to take presents to the Pasha of Barka and deliver a new envoy, Mr Consul Hamilton.

Finally, Amos Jacob arrives on a green brig with a coded message from Sir Joseph Blaine: the Duke of Clarence requests Horatio Hanson's return to sit his lieutenant's examination ( after having fought very valiantly in the cutting-out episode ) but, more importantly, the Admiralty requires Aubrey to take command of the South African squadron, hoisting his flag at the River Plate, blue at the mizzen, aboard HMS Implacable.

*** HMS Briseis-a brig ; Captain Harris

* HMS Niagara, a Royal Navy brig captured and renamed the USS Linnet ( 1814 )

* HMS Admiral Rainier ( 1800 ), a 16-gun brig captured and used by the British

It takes its name from the Mount Gambier, a crater sighted in 1800 by Lieutenant James Grant from the survey brig, HMS Lady Nelson, and named for Lord James Gambier, Admiral of the Fleet.

* HMS Tiger was a 12-gun brig in service from 1808 to 1812.

* HMS Eagle was a brig built in 1812 and serving as a tender to.

* HMS Hunter was a 10-gun brig launched in 1812 and captured by the Americans in 1813.

* HMS Locust was a 14-gun, brig, launched at Rotherhithe in 1801, that served in the Channel and was sold in 1814.

He was then promoted to Master Commandant and offered the command of a brig which was under construction.

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.

* The 18-grun brig Rattlesnake commanded by Commander Terence O ' Brien in Frederick Marryat's Peter Simple.

# 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.

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.

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.

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 ).