---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2777"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2777"
heading: "Clothing for destitute shipwrecked individuals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2777"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 27 — Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter III — Payments"
---

# §2777. Clothing for destitute shipwrecked individuals


The Coast Guard may furnish clothing and subsistence to destitute shipwrecked individuals, and the Coast Guard may reimburse, in cash or in kind, Coast Guard personnel who furnish clothing and subsistence to destitute shipwrecked individuals.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 534, § 486; renumbered § 2777, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226; Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8505(a)(45)(A), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4750.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 33, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 749 (July 27, 1912, ch. 255, § 2, 37 Stat. 239; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736).

This section was enlarged to provide that the Coast Guard, as well as personnel thereof, may furnish clothing and subsistence to destitute shipwrecked persons.

Changes were made in phraseology. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “individuals” for “persons” in section catchline and in two places in text.

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 486 of this title as this section.