A second shipwreck occurred Coming_to_be from Lampedusa on 11 October , within the Maltese search Scouring and rescue Rescuing zone , but closer to Lampedusa .

Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23 ; of the victims Catastrophe whose ages are known Know , the oldest victim Catastrophe was 43-year-old Providenza Panno , and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria `` Sara '' Maltese .

By March 1800 Valletta , the Maltese capital , had been under siege Besieging for eighteen months and food supplies Supply were severely depleted Expend_resource , a problem exacerbated by the interception and defeat of a French replenishment convoy in mid-February .