The Argus took at least 20 prizes in just 19 days until 13 August 1813, when off St. David’s Head, Wales, the British brig Pelican stood toward her, her captain noting that the Argus had “made herself clear for an obstinate resistance.”

A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the latter part of the 19th century.

The first USS Argus, originally named USS Merrimack, was a brig in the United States Navy commissioned in 1803. She enforced the Embargo Act of 1807 and fought in the First Barbary War – taking part in the blockade of Tripoli and the capture of Derna – and the War of 1812.

Pilgrim was an early 19th century American sailing brig. She was immortalized by one of her sailors Richard Henry Dana Jr. , who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about a 1834–1835 voyage between Massachusetts and California to trade for hides.

Starting in 2025, the Niagara will undergo nearly a year of drydock work. Crews will stabilize the bow, replace hull planking, upgrade engines and electrical systems, and make other critical …

Brigs are two-masted square-rigged vessels which fall into three categories: Full-rigged brigs—simply called brigs—were fully square-rigged on both masts. A sub-type—called a snow—had a trysail mast on the aft side of the lower main mast, on which the spanker, with its gaff and boom, was set.

From this preoccupation with European affairs the English people were suddenly awakened in the summer of 1813 by the appearance in the English Channel of an American brig seemingly bent on sinking or burning every carrier of British commerce.

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Jan 9, 2018 · "I just don't think TV portrays brig or prison life accurately. People are expecting something completely different, but it's a very professional place." Mayer's primary job as a brig duty...