Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Thean da ya tsira na Dr. Stephen Briggs, Babban Likita a Madras, da Magdalene Pasley, Briggs sun shiga Sojan Ruwa a ranar 10 ga Satumba 1791. Ya fara aiki ne a matsayin mai ba da agaji na farko a cikin jirgin, a karkashin umarnin kawunsa Kyaftin Thomas Pasley. Daga baya ya bi shi a cikin jirgin tare da matsayi na midshipman. Tsakanin 1793 da 1798 Briggs ya yi aiki a karkashin Kyaftin Charles Tyler a cikin, kuma, ya shiga cikin ayyukan da aka yi wa Toulon da Corsica a 1793-94, kuma ya ga aikin a karkashin Admiral William Hotham a yakin Genoa
a ranar 14 ga Maris da yakin tsibirin Hyères a ranar 13 ga Yuli, 1795.