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brig and Interceptor
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.

brig and film
* The brig Enterprise in the film Star Trek Generations ( portrayed by the brig Lady Washington ).
Jack has also learned a few tricks from Will, using the same technique Will employed to free Jack from jail in the first film, to escape the Dutchman's brig.

brig and Black
Captain John Black was sailing in the brig Harbinger, after which the dangerous Harbinger Rocks off the island's north-west coast are named.

brig and Pearl
After Will's failed attempt to gain the Pearl by delivering Jack and the crew ( minus Elizabeth ) to Sao Feng fails, Jack throws Will in the brig.
The only attempt at enforcement of the ukase of 1821 was the seizure of the U. S. brig Pearl in 1822, by the Russian sloop Apollon.

brig and by
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.
* 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.
* 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 18-grun brig Rattlesnake commanded by Commander Terence O ' Brien in Frederick Marryat's Peter Simple.
* The brig Sea Hawk in The Pirate of the Mediterranean by William Henry Giles Kingston.
* The brig HMS Sophie in Master and Commander by Patrick O ' Brian.

brig and Lady
The brig Lady Washington
* The brig Lady Washington
* The brig Lady Nelson
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.
This is a woodcut of the Lady Nelson brig, dated 1800, which I have found multiple versions of on the web.
F. S. Dutton's brother William Hampden Dutton ( 1805 – 1849 ) was pastoralist of Anlaby station and miner at Kapnda, not to be confused with the unrelated William Pelham Dutton ( 1811 – 1878 ) who was born William Dutton in Sydney, shifted with his family to Tasmania in 1813 and was for many years captain of the brig Lady Mary Pelham, one of the ships chartered by the South Australian Company in 1836.

brig and Washington
The American Maritime Fur Trader Joseph Ingraham first visited the northern Marquesas while commanding the brig Hope in 1791, giving them the name Washington Islands.
During hostilities between the United States and Mexico, he was attached to the Home Squadron and served off Tabasco and Tuxpan on the brig USS Washington.

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The day before the battle, De Rigny persuaded these officers to withdraw from the Egyptian fleet so as to avoid the possibility of fighting against their own navy ( they moved to an Austrian brig that was in the bay, ostensibly neutral but in reality providing logistical support for Ottoman operations ).
" If you smiled during the presentation, you might be thrown in the brig ( jail ).
A typical brig sail plan In sailing, a full-rigged brig is a vessel with two square rigged masts ( fore and main ).
Historically most brigs were made of wood, although some latter brigs were built with hulls and masts of steel or iron ( such as the brig Bob Allen ).
A brig made of pine in the 19th century was designed to last for about twenty years ( many lasted longer ).
The word " brig " has been used in the past as an abbreviation of brigantine ( which is the name for a principally fore-and-aft two-masted rig with a square rigged foremast ).
* The brig Isle of Skye in Iain Lawrence's The Wreckers ( High Seas Trilogy ).
* The brig Covenant in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped ( novel ).
Kotor was captured by the British attack on the Bay led by Commodore John Harper in the brig sloop ( 18 guns ).
The successor to the former snow sloops, brig sloops had two masts while ship sloops continued to have three ( since a brig is a two-masted, square-rigged vessel and a ship is a square-rigger with three or more masts, though invariably only three in that period ).
In the Napoleonic period Britain built huge numbers of brig sloops of the Cruizer class ( 18 guns ) and the Cherokee class ( 10 guns ).
The brig rig was economical of manpower ( important given Britain's chronic shortfall in trained seamen relative to the demands of the wartime fleet ) and when armed with carronades ( 32-pounders in the Cruizers, 18-pounders in the Cherokees ) they had the highest ratio of firepower to tonnage of any ships in the Royal Navy ( albeit within the short range of the carronade ).
The United States Exploring Expedition, commonly known as the " Wilkes Expedition ", included naturalists, botanists, a mineralogist, taxidermists, artists and a philologist, and was carried by the USS Vincennes ( 780 tons ) and Peacock ( 650 tons ), the brig Porpoise ( 230 tons ), the store-ship Relief, and two schooners, Sea Gull ( 110 tons ) and Flying Fish ( 96 tons ).
Older Scots ' Cot ( t )' ( cottage ) and ' brig ' ( bridge ).
* Brig sloop: A type of sloop-of-war introduced in the 1770s which had two square-rigged masts like a brig ( in contrast to ship sloops of the time, which had three masts ).
* Ship sloop: A type of sloop-of-war introduced in the 1740s which had three square-rigged masts ( in contrast to the brig sloop introduced in the 1770s, which had two masts ).
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 ).
Then on 25 July seventeen boats from a British squadron consisting of,, and, attacked a flotilla of four enemy gunboats and a brig off Aspö Head near Fredrikshamn in Finland then still part of Sweden ( present – day Hamina, Finland ).
Captain James Barber of the British ship Unicorn, also anchored nearby, lured Shk ' awulyéil and several of his raiders aboard and placed them in the brig, subsequently exchanging them for the remaining lone Russian and 18 Aleut captives ( along with some 4, 000 sea otter pelts that had been plundered during the raid ).

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