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) wounded, including Beaufort who received, but survived, 19 wounds. The Spanish sustained at least 13 wounded. Once Morris was sure that his men had secured the prize he sailed "Phaeton" in pursuit of a second pollaca that had passed earlier, sailing from Ceuta to Málaga. "Phaeton" was able to catch her under a battery at Cape Molleno. While "Phaeton" was returning to pick up Beaufort, his men and their prize, the French privateer schooner sailed past, too far away for "Phaeton" to intercept. The British immediately commissioned "San Josef" as a British sloop-of-war under the name , the ancient name