---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 11111"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "11111"
heading: "Limit on amount recoverable on voyage"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/11111"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen"
  - "Part G — Merchant Seamen Protection and Relief"
  - "Chapter 111 — Protection and Relief"
---

# §11111. Limit on amount recoverable on voyage


When a [seaman](/usc/46/10101.md?p=3) is on a voyage on which a written agreement is required under this part, not more than $1 is recoverable from the [seaman](/usc/46/10101.md?p=3) by a [person](/usc/46/3701.md?p=3) for a debt incurred by the [seaman](/usc/46/10101.md?p=3) during the voyage for which the [seaman](/usc/46/10101.md?p=3) is signed on until the voyage is ended.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 581.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |
| --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source section (U.S. Code) |
| 11111 | 46:602 |

Section 11111 limits the amount of money recoverable from a seaman for a debt incurred while on a voyage on which a shipping agreement is required.