Phaeton (carriage) Roger Button, Benjamin's father, owns a phaeton that is his primary mode of transportation until Benjamin buys the first automobile in Baltimore. In Susannah Kells' novel "Fallen Angels", a phaeton is the transportation of choice for the main character, Campion, who later crashes the carriage in a perfect example of its dangerous and fickle reputation. The character Mr. Spenlow from the novel "David Copperfield" dies suddenly of a heart attack while driving his phaeton home. Henry James, in his short story "An International Episode" (1878) has Lord Lambeth driven through town in "a little basket-phaeton" by his companion Bessie Aldon.
HMS Phaeton (1782) 26 March 1828. "Phaeton" was commissioned in March 1782. Within a year she had been paid off. In December 1792 "Phaeton" was commissioned under Sir Andrew Snape Douglas. In March 1793 "Phaeton" captured the 4-gun privateer lugger "Aimable Liberté". Then on 14 April "Phaeton" sighted the French privateer "Général Dumourier" (or" Général Du Mourier"), of twenty-two 6-pounder guns and 196 men, and her Spanish prize, the "St Jago", 140 leagues to the west of Cape Finisterre. "Phaeton" was part of Admiral John Gell's squadron and the entire squadron set off in pursuit, but it was "Phaeton" that made the actual