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.

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.

One of the few successes of this second invasion attempt came when Colonel Elbert put 300 of his troops aboard three galleys and caused the surrender of three British warships, his Majesty ’ s schooner Hinchinbrook, the recently repaired sloop-of-war Rebecca, and a third vessel referred to as a prize brig, all anchored along Frederica.

* 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.

Te Rauparaha then hired the brig Elizabeth captained by John Stewart to transport himself and 100 warriors to Akaroa Harbour with the aim of attacking the local tribe, the Ngai Tahu.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

* The brig Covenant in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped ( novel ).

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.

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 ).

On September 26, 1814, the American privateer brig " General Armstrong ", under the command of Captain Samuel Chester Reid, was sunk by three ships of the British Royal Navy under the command of Robert Lloyd.

In 1792, the island was discovered by Lieutenant William Robert Broughton, commander of the Royal Navy survey brig HMS Chatham, who named it Menzies, after the botanist of his ship Archibald Menzies and naming Vancouver after his commander George Vancouver.

" 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.

* The cargo brig Pilgrim, whose 1834 trading voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to California is described in the book Two Years Before the Mast.

On his release, he served in the Massachusetts Navy sloop Winthrop and led a boarding party to cut out a British brig at Castine, Maine.

For instance, during the Second Barbary War President James Madison authorized the Salem, Mass., brig Grand Turk to cruise against " Algerine vessels, public or private, goods and effects, of or belonging to the Dey of Algiers ".

* The brig USS Argus used during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812.

* The brig USS Oneida used during the War of 1812.

* The brig USS Somers, sunk in the Mexican-American War.

* was a brig purchased by the American Continental Congress to serve in the American Revolutionary War.

* a bomb brig saw action during the Mexican-American War

The American Revolutionary War era brig, USS Independence, was built by Kingston shipbuilders and has emerged as a town icon, featured on the Kingston town seal, as well as the subject of the town song, " Independence ".

During the Mexican-American War, he commanded the brig USS Somers in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the War of 1812 against Britain, a Revenue Cutter ( USRC Jefferson ) made the first American capture of an enemy ship, the brig Patriot, in June 1812.

# On 29 July 1812, at the start of the War of 1812, Lt. William M. Crane, USN, commanding officer of U. S. brig Nautilus, reported his capture by a British squadron in these words: " the chaseing ship put her helm up hoisted a broad pendant and English colours and ranged under my lee quarter -- unable to resist I was compelled to strike the Flag of the United States.

*, a brig during the War of 1812.

During the Mexican-American War, he served in the brig in the squadron of Commodore Matthew Perry, and took part in the capture of Tabasco, Mexico, on 14 – 16 January 1847.

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.

* was originally the cutter Ferret but was rerigged as a brig and renamed just before the War of 1812, during which she was captured by the British.

Returning to the United States in mid-1861, Lieutenant Gwin began Civil War combat service in the newly acquired cruiser Cambridge and, later in the year, was assigned to the brig Perry.

The last of the ships was captured at the outbreak of the Civil War: Constellation overpowered the slaver brig Triton in African coastal waters.

The outbreak of the Civil War found him serving on the Atlantic coast in brig Bainbridge.