---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1483"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1483"
heading: "Foreign government ships; immunity"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1483"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Pollution Casualties on the High Seas: United States Intervention"
---

# §1483. Foreign government ships; immunity


No measures may be taken under authority of this chapter against any warship or other [ship](/usc/33/1471.md?p=5) owned or operated by a country and used, for the time being, only on Government noncommercial service.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–248, § 14, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 10.)