Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ɗan da ya tsira daga Dr. Stephen Briggs, Babban Likita a Madras, da Magdalene Pasley, Briggs ya shiga Navy 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 yayi aiki a karkashin Kyaftin Charles Tyler a cikin, kuma, shiga cikin ayyukan da aka yi wa Toulon da Corsica a 1793-94, kuma ya ga aikin a karkashin Admiral William Hotham a cikin
Yaƙin Genoa a ranar 14 ga Maris da Yaƙin Tsibirin Hyères a ranar 13 ga Yuli, 1795.