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) October). Then on 28 December "Phaeton" took the 12-gun "Hazard" in the Bay of Biscay. The next day, the 44-gun "Anson", Captain Philip Charles Durham, with "Phaeton", retook the 20-gun "Sphinx"-class post ship , which the French had captured almost exactly three years earlier. Out of a crew of 276, including 30 passengers of various descriptions, "Daphne", lost five men killed and several wounded before she surrendered. "Anson" had no casualties. On New Year's Day, 1798, "Phaeton" took "Aventure". On 19 February she took the 18-gun "Légère" in the Channel. On 22 March she participated in damaging the 36-gun frigate