Phaeton (carriage) "His companion went into seventeen shops — he amused himself with counting them — and accumulated, at the bottom of the phaeton, a pile of bundles that hardly left the young Englishman a place for his feet. As she had no groom nor footman, he sat in the phaeton to hold the ponies." Georgette Heyer, the Regency romance novelist, frequently wrote about sporting gentlemen driving their phaetons. Some of her heroines were also notable whips, such as Hero from "Friday's Child" who gets into a scrape by agreeing to participate in a 'Lady's Race' in her phaeton. Phaeton (carriage) A
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