At an Ohio history festival, 19th century style brig warship USS Niagara passes the Lorain, Ohio | Lorain lighthouse.

* The brig USS Somers had a mutiny plotted onboard on her first voyage.

Painting of the brig USS Niagara in the Battle of Lake Erie.

* 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 Oregon used in the U. S. Exploring Expedition.

* The brig USS Reprisal that fought in the American Revolution.

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

Only a few days before the Battle of Plattsburgh, the Americans also completed the 20-gun brig USS Eagle.

The brig Linnet, commanded by Pring, reached the head of the American line and opened a raking fire against the USS Eagle.

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 1842, his nineteen-year-old son, Philip Spencer, a midshipman, was executed without court-martial along with two other sailors aboard the brig USS Somers for allegedly attempting mutiny.

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 ).

Continental ship USS Columbus ( 1774 ) | Columbus with captured British brig Lord Lifford, 1776

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.

* USS Spark ( 1813 ), a United States Navy brig ship

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

* USS Perry ( 1843 ), a sailing brig, 1843 – 1865

* The first USS Lawrence was a brig which acted as then-Master Commandant Oliver Perry's flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie until she was destroyed in that action.

* The second USS Lawrence was also a brig, serving from 1843-1846.

It functions as a communication device, a remote control to his personal transporter, a handheld weapon with both stun and kill settings and enough precision ( and restraint ) to cut a telephone wire from across a room, a remote manipulator to circuitry and machinery ( used to deactivate the force field keeping him in the brig of the USS Enterprise ), and a mechanical manipulation device ( unscrewing screws, unlocking doors, etc .).

* USS Oregon ( 1841 ), a U. S. Navy brig

Along the way, the Yorktown met up with both the British brig HMS Contest under the command of Archibald McMurdo and the USS Perry, which was then under the command of Captain Andrew H. Foote.

* The brig Niagara

* The brig Niagara museum

There, he took command of Niagara, a brig in Oliver Hazard Perry's squadron.

* The brig Rebecca captained by Robert Jenkins whose boarding triggered the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

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.

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 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.