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) in the Far East. Later in 1804 she and chased the French privateer "Henriette" back to Port Louis. Also, "Phaeton" recaptured the "Mornington", which the French privateer Nicholas Surcouf in "Caroline" had captured on 14 August 1804; Captain Fallonard of the brig "Île de France" recaptured "Mornington". The British recaptured "Mornington" again as she continued to sail under the British Ensign until she was burnt in the Bay of Bengal in 1816. On 2 August 1805, under Captain John Wood, "Phaeton" fought the 40-gun "Sémillante", Captain Léonard-Bernard Motard, in the San Bernardino Strait off San Jacinto, Philippines, together with the