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 (1883) Preston firm for scrap. However, she was repurchased by the Admiralty in 1941 and renamed "Carrick II", and served as an accommodation hulk at Gourock throughout World War II. In 1946 she was sold for breaking up to Thos W Ward's in Preston, where she arrived on 24 January 1947. HMS Phaeton (1883) HMS "Phaeton" was a second class cruiser of the "Leander" class which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Napier in Glasgow, being laid down in 1880, launched in 1883 and completed in 1886. "The "Phaeton" has been tried in the Solent. At the previous