SMS 'Balaton' was one of six Tátra-class destroyers built for the 'Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine' (Austro-Hungarian Navy) shortly before the First World War.

Completed in 1913, she did not participate in the attacks on the Italian mainland after Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in May 1915.

However, two months later the ship bombarded a small island in the Central Adriatic Sea during an unsuccessful attempt to recapture it from the Italians. In November and early December Balaton was one of the ships conducting raids off the Albanian coast to interdict the supply lines between Italy and Albania.

She played a minor role in the 1st 'Battle of Durazzo' in late December of 1915, where SMS Balaton participated in several unsuccessful raids on the Otranto Barrage. She sank an ammunition ship during the Battle of the Strait of Otranto. With the cessation of hostilities in November 1918, she was transferred to Italy in 1920 in accordance with the peace treaties ending the war and renamed 'Zenson'.

The Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) cannibalized her for spare parts; she was eventually discarded completely in 1923 and subsequently scrapped.

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