Karol Križman (Sv. Anton pri Kopru 1883– ?) was serving in the Austro-Hungarian Navy when he travelled to East Asia on the torpedo boat Kaiser Franz Jožef I from September 1905 to December 1908. Karol was born in 1883 in Sv. Anton near Koper. He was drafted into the navy in 1904. On the ship Kaiser Franz Jožef I, which visited numerous Chinese and Japanese ports as well as Korea and Vladivostok during its cruise, he was a waiter in the officers’ mess. After returning from his voyage, he left the navy, but was called up again during the First World War.
Karol Križman brought back two commemorative embroideries from East Asia, which he had made in Japan as a memento of his trip and of the typhoon he experienced on board the ship during the voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong in October 1905.
