Phaeton (carriage) The Keystone Cops drove phaetons, either Model Ts or Model As. In Frances Burney's novel, "Evelina" (1778), young gentlemen race their phaetons on the public highways of Clifton, near Bristol, not without incident. In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Mr Collins says of Lady Catherine De Bourgh's daughter, "she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies." In Anne Brontë's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (1848), Mr. Huntingdon drives a "light phaeton" that comes "bowling merrily up the lawn" (Ch. 18). The sporty character of the carriage reflects Huntingdon's devil-may-care
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