Phaeton (carriage) spring suspension system, with or without a top. A variation of this type of a carriage is called a "Victoria", with a retractable cover over the rear passenger compartment. Each June from 1978 to 2011, during the official Queen's Birthday celebrations, Queen Elizabeth II traveled to and from Trooping the Colour on Horse Guards Parade in an ivory-mounted phaeton carriage made in 1842 for her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. In her later years, Queen Victoria greatly enjoyed travelling in a phaeton drawn by a single white donkey, or mule, when on her holidays in Cimiez, then a small village on the
HMS Phaeton (1782) 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop "Harrier", Captain Edward Ratsey. After exchanges of fire first with "Harrier" and then with "Phaeton", "Sémillante" took refuge under the guns of a shore battery. Unable to dislodge her, the two British vessels eventually sailed off, each having suffered two men wounded. "Sémillante" was reported to have suffered 13 killed and 36 wounded. After resupplying at San Jacinto, "Sémillante" intended to sail for Mexico in March 1805 to fetch specie for the Philippines; the encounter with "Phaeton" and "Harrier" foiled the plan. Motard returned to the Indian Ocean, operating for the next three years against British