[{WikipediaArticle oldid='209855934'}] %%information %%(font-size: 80%;) !!!License Information of Images on page ||Image Description||Credit||Artist||License Name||File | Austrian Ehrenflagge weiß, 'Merito_Navali' (flag of honour in white, for excellence in merchant navy). It was created in 1850 and was granted only once: Giovanni Visin, first circumnavigator under Austrian flag, was awarded on 4 July 1860.| Flaggen‐Tafeln. Druck und Verlag der kaiserlich‐königlichen Hof‐ und Staatsdruckerei, 1874. quoted by http://othes.univie.ac.at/4137/1/2009-03-19_9650339.pdf (cropped for this specimen)| Autor/-in unbekannt Unknown author| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/publicdomain.png' alt='Public domain' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/public-domain-10.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Ehrenflagge weiß 'Merito Navali', Austria 1850.jpg | Captain Giovanni Visin (in Croatian: Ivo Visin), and the first 'Austrian' circumnavigator (18511852-1859, with a crew of only 11. He turned back to Trieste four days after SMS Novara, on 30 August 1859, after navigating 101.297 nautical miles as a merchant. He was honoured by the ony 'Merito Nacali' flag of honour ever granted, by emperor Franz Joseph I:, in 1860. Image was slightly digitally edited.| http://www.croatianhistory.net/gif/visin.jpg| not given by source| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/publicdomain.png' alt='Public domain' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/public-domain-10.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Giovanni Visin (Ivo Visin) 1806-1868.jpg %% %%