Phaeton (carriage) most impressive phaeton was the English four-wheeled high flyer. The mail and spider phaetons were more conservatively constructed. The mail phaeton was used chiefly to carry passengers with luggage and was named for its construction, using "mail" springs originally designed for use on mail coaches. The spider phaeton, of American origin and made for gentlemen drivers, was a high and lightly constructed carriage with a covered seat in front and a footman's seat behind. Fashionable phaetons used at horse shows included the Stanhope, typically having a high seat and closed back, and the Tilbury, a two-wheeled carriage with an elaborate
HMS Phaeton (1883) 1914. Mr Frank Bibby, gave the charity money to buy the "Phaeton" and to refit her at Birkenhead as a training ship. The "Phaeton" was renamed TS "Indefatigable" and moored off New Ferry in Liverpool on 15 January 1914. The previous "Indefatigable" had been condemned by the Inspector of Training Ships in 1912 as unfit, and was towed to the West Float at Birkenhead on 5 January 1914, and sold for scrap on 26 March. The figurehead of William IV from the old "Indefatigable" was transferred to the ex-"Phaeton". An Admiralty warrant for a Blue Ensign defaced with a liver