HMS Temeraire, "The Great Brig", an ironclad launched in 1876, the largest ship to sail with a brig rig. 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".