Phaeton (carriage) Roger Button, Benjamin's father, owns a phaeton that is his primary mode of transportation until Benjamin buys the first automobile in Baltimore. In Susannah Kells' novel "Fallen Angels", a phaeton is the transportation of choice for the main character, Campion, who later crashes the carriage in a perfect example of its dangerous and fickle reputation. The character Mr. Spenlow from the novel "David Copperfield" dies suddenly of a heart attack while driving his phaeton home. Henry James, in his short story "An International Episode" (1878) has Lord Lambeth driven through town in "a little basket-phaeton" by his companion Bessie Aldon.
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