Samuel Phillips, 21, labourer, was tried and convicted at the Bristol Quarter Sessions on 2 May 1820 for stealing a watch. He was sentenced to 14 years’ transportation. Phillips’s record states that his conduct on board the hulk was ‘orderly’. His physical description notes a tattoo of a mermaid on his left arm. Phillips sailed for Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) on the Juliana on 3 September 1820, arriving on 28 December 1820. He had received his ticket of leave by 1830 and was granted a free certificate on 24 September 1835.