Michaele Caroana failed to report for service on the ship San Giacomo and remained in Malta. Michaele claimed that the desertion was involuntarily since he was hungover from drinking wine and overslept, and he had already loaded his possessions on the ship and asks that he is not punished so he can marry the dowry-less Antonia Hebejer, who would otherwise be destitute. Caroana was sentenced to three years' rowing with chained feet. Giorgio Mercieca was likewise accused of desertion and sentenced to two years' rowing with chained feet.

it is reported that the sailor Carlus parnis escaped from service on the galley San Johannes while in Cartagena three years previously. He claimed that it had happened because he had been sent inland to buy provisions but when he returned, the ship had lready set sail. In the meantime, he had taken up employment on other ships as available. He finally joined up with the crew of San Johannes again when he came across the ship in Leghorn. He was sentenced to three years' rowing with chained feet on the triremes/galleys of the Order.

The buonavoglia rower Dominicum Portelli is accused of desertion for not reporting for duty aboard the galley Santa Maria del Rosario. He was sentenced to three years' rowing.