Phaeton (carriage) most impressive phaeton was the English four-wheeled high flyer. The mail and spider phaetons were more conservatively constructed. The mail phaeton was used chiefly to carry passengers with luggage and was named for its construction, using "mail" springs originally designed for use on mail coaches. The spider phaeton, of American origin and made for gentlemen drivers, was a high and lightly constructed carriage with a covered seat in front and a footman's seat behind. Fashionable phaetons used at horse shows included the Stanhope, typically having a high seat and closed back, and the Tilbury, a two-wheeled carriage with an elaborate
HMS Phaeton (1782) June - "Poisson Volante", of ten guns, and "Général Washington". On 27 November "Phaeton" and were among the six vessels of a squadron that captured the 28-gun "Blonde" off Ushant. In February 1794 "Phaeton" was paid off, but the next month Captain William Bentinck recommissioned her. During the battle of the Glorious First of June, "Phaeton" came to the aid of the dismasted . While doing so, "Phaeton" exchanged broadsides with the French ship-of-the-line "Impetueux. "Phaeton" suffered three men killed and five wounded. She was the only one of the support vessels there to suffer casualties. In 1847 the Admiralty