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The brigantine was the second-most popular rig for ships built in the British colonies in North America before 1775, after the sloop. [6] The brigantine was swifter and more easily maneuvered than a sloop or schooner, hence was employed for piracy, espionage, and reconnoitering, and as an outlying attendant upon large ships for protecting a ...
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Montague was an armed brigantine of the Nova Scotia government that patrolled Nova Scotian waters during the Seven Years' War as part Nova Scotia's Provincial Marine (not to be confused with the Provincial Marine under the Royal Navy in British North America).
Nancy was an American sailing vessel, noted in sources as either a brig or a brigantine, that was chartered to transport war supplies during the American Revolutionary War. After learning that independence had been declared, her captain, according to his daughter, raised the first American flag in a foreign port.
The brigantine Active, a prize taken by Hazard, was purchased in 1779. [7] In April 1778, construction was authorized on the largest ship in the state navy. Protector , a 28-gun frigate and a crew complement of 200, was launched in the fall of 1779.
USS General Gates was a brigantine of the Continental Navy active in 1778 and 1779.. Built as the merchant brigantine Industrious Bee in 1764 at Bristol, England, for operations by Clapman & Co., the British ship was captured on 29 August 1777 by Captain John Skimmer in the Continental schooner USS Lee, while bound from Gibraltar for Newfoundland.
On 13 January, 1778 she captured brigantine Sally approximately 160 miles off Cape Henlopen. [6] On 14 January, 1778 she captured Dutch ship Vrouw Margaretta 130 miles off Cape Henlopen. [ 7 ] On 6 February she captured Rhode Island privateer sloop Montgomery 200 miles off Sandy Hook ( 39°00′N 72°00′W / 39.000°N 72.000°W ...
The word brig has been used in the past as an abbreviation of brigantine (which is the name for a two-masted vessel with foremast fully square rigged and her mainmast rigged with both a fore-and-aft mainsail, square topsails and possibly topgallant sails). The brig actually developed as a variant of the brigantine.