Editing Brig (section)

==Historic examples==
[[File:battle small.jpg|thumb|Painting of the brig USS ''Niagara'' in the 1813 [[Battle of Lake Erie]].]]
[[File:Aivazovsky, Brig Mercury Attacked by Two Turkish Ships 1892.jpg|thumb|''[[Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships]]'', [[Ivan Aivazovsky]], oil on canvas, 1892]]

* [[HMS Pilot|HMS ''Pilot'']], a [[Cruizer-class brig-sloop|''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop]] launched in 1807. While commanded by John Toup Nicholas off southern Italy in 1810–1812, ''Pilot'' participated in the capture or destruction of over 130 enemy vessels. In 1815 she fought the last naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, fighting to a draw the French frigate ''Légère''.
* [[USS Argus (1803)|USS ''Argus'']] used during the [[First Barbary War]] and the [[War of 1812]].
* ''[[Texan brig Archer|Archer]]'', a vessel of the [[Second Texas Navy]].
* [[USS Oneida (1810)|USS ''Oneida'']] used during the [[War of 1812]]. [[James Fenimore Cooper]] was a midshipman aboard the ''Oneida'' while under construction.
* The cargo-hauling brig ''Farmer''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(wd0363))|title=American Memory from the Library of Congress|website=memory.loc.gov|access-date=2019-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129142121/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem%2Fmgw%3A%40field%28DOCID+%40lit%28wd0363%29%29|archive-date=2018-11-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> owned by [[George Washington]].
* The cargo-hauling brig ''Fleetwing''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://freespace.virgin.net/r.cadwalader/maritime/era/fleetwin.htm#topfleetwing |title=Fleetwing (brig, built by Richard Jones at Borth y Gest, in 1874) |access-date=2007-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301112328/http://freespace.virgin.net/r.cadwalader/maritime/era/fleetwin.htm#topfleetwing |archive-date=2007-03-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* The ''Bonanza'' of Liverpool, built as a barquentine in 1830 and converted to a brig in 1841.{{r|MacGregor 1984|pp=79-80}} The first ship to bring a cargo of Peruvian guano to the UK, in 1841, setting off decades of a lucrative export trade.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/HECROS1841/page/n133/mode/2up|title=Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1841|website=archive.org|access-date=2021-11-22}}</ref> 
* ''Leonora'' of Captain [[Bully Hayes]].
* ''[[Russian brig Mercury|Mercury]]'' (Russian: Меркурий) An 1819 Russian navy 18 gun brig painted twice by [[Ivan Aivazovsky]]. On May 14, 1829, Mercury engaged in an uneven battle against 2 Turkish ships of the line, Selimiye (110 guns) and Real-Bei (74 guns) and emerged victorious from that battle, damaging both Turkish sufficiently to be not able to chase Mercury and disengaging the battle.
* [[USS Niagara (1813)|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]].
* USS ''Oregon'', used in the [[U.S. Exploring Expedition]].
* The cargo brig ''[[Pilgrim (brig)|Pilgrim]]'', whose 1834 trading voyage from [[Boston, Massachusetts]] to [[California]] is described in the book ''[[Two Years Before the Mast]]''.
* [[Texan brig Potomac|Potomac]], a vessel of the [[Second Texas Navy]]
* ''Rebecca'', captained by [[Robert Jenkins (master mariner)|Robert Jenkins]], whose boarding triggered the [[War of Jenkins' Ear]].
* [[USS Reprisal (1776)|USS ''Reprisal'']], fought in the [[American Revolution]].
* [[USS Somers (1842)|USS ''Somers'']], sunk in the [[Mexican–American War]].
* {{HMS|Beagle}} was built as a brig in 1820 for the Royal Navy. She was deployed as a survey vessel to survey the coasts of South America, Australia, and Africa. A mizzen mast was added prior to the 5-year voyage with [[Charles Darwin]] to increase manoeuvrability in the shallow coastal waters that she would explore.
* [[Jean Lafitte]]'s pirate brig, the ''[[Pride(ship)|Pride]]'' from 1815 to 1816.
* [[HMS Badger (1777)|HMS ''Badger'']], the future [[Lord Nelson|Admiral Horatio Nelson's]] first command as a young lieutenant.
* ''[[Texan brig Wharton|Wharton]]'', one of the vessels of the [[Second Texas Navy]], which participated in the [[Naval Battle of Campeche]], which is the only historical example of a steam navy having been defeated by a sail navy.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}
*[[Joel Root]] as [[supercargo]] sailed out of New Haven harbor in 1802 on the brig ''Huron'' to begin his journey around the world on a sealing expedition.
* [[Rover (privateering ship)|Rover]] was a privateer brig out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia known for several bold battles in the Napoleonic Wars.
* [[HMS Temeraire (1876)|HMS ''Temeraire'']], "The Great Brig", an [[ironclad]] launched in 1876, the largest ship to sail with a brig rig.
* [[NMS Mircea (1882)|NMS ''Mircea'']] was a brig of the [[Romanian Navy]], built in London in 1882 and sunk by aircraft in April 1944.
* The ''Telos'', built in [[Bangor, Maine]] in 1883, was reportedly the last brig to join the American merchant marine, and was "considered to be the finest vessel of her class ever constructed in Maine". She was wrecked on Aves Island, off [[Bonaire]] in the Caribbean, in 1900.<ref>''New York Times'' June 17, 1900, p. 10</ref>
* [[Whaler|Industry]], a whaler found to have been sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.

The famous mystery ship ''[[Mary Celeste]]'', while sometimes called a brig, was clearly a [[brigantine]].