Phaeton (carriage) "His companion went into seventeen shops — he amused himself with counting them — and accumulated, at the bottom of the phaeton, a pile of bundles that hardly left the young Englishman a place for his feet. As she had no groom nor footman, he sat in the phaeton to hold the ponies." Georgette Heyer, the Regency romance novelist, frequently wrote about sporting gentlemen driving their phaetons. Some of her heroines were also notable whips, such as Hero from "Friday's Child" who gets into a scrape by agreeing to participate in a 'Lady's Race' in her phaeton. Phaeton (carriage) A
HMS Phaeton (1782) men. She was one day out of Bordeaux and had captured nothing. A week later, "Anson" and "Phaeton" captured the 32-gun privateer "Flore" after a 24-hour-long chase. Stopford, in his letter, described "Flore" as a frigate of 36 guns and 255 men. She was eight days out of Boulogne on a cruise. "Flore" had also served the Royal Navy in the American Revolutionary War. Then on 8 October "Phaeton" took the 16-gun privateer "Lévrier". Together with "Ambuscade" and "Stag", on 20 November she took the "Hirondelle". On 24 November 1798, "Phaeton" captured the French privateer brig "Resolue" (or "Resolu"). "Resolue"