SMS Balaton[Note 1] 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. 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. Balaton participated in several unsuccessful raids on the Otranto Barrage in 1917, although she sank an ammunition ship during the Battle of the Strait of Otranto. 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) used her for spare parts; she was discarded in 1923 and subsequently scrapped.
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SMSBalaton was one of six Tátra-class destroyers built for the kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine (Austro-Hungarian Navy) shortly before the First...
ships. On 23 July Helgoland and her sister SMS Saida, escorted by Csepel, Tátra, their sister SMSBalaton and three other destroyers bombarded the towns...
submarine Monge was rammed by the cruiser SMS Helgoland, and finally sunk by gunfire from the destroyer SMSBalaton. Early the next day, the Austrians squadron...
Austro-Hungarian Navy ships – the Tátra-class destroyer SMSBalaton and the torpedo boats SMS Tb-74 and SMS Tb-98. The ship officially had 1,003 passengers on...
Seitz to take Helgoland, Tátra, Csepel, Lika and their sisters SMS Triglav and SMSBalaton south and search the area between Durazzo and Brindisi for them...
26 February. On the night of 31 May/1 June 1916, Orjen and her sister SMSBalaton, together with three torpedo boats, attacked the Otranto Barrage and...
mines, and sank with the loss of 147 lives. The destroyers SMSBalaton, SMS Csepel, and SMS Triglav (all Austro-Hungarian Navy) rescued 150 survivors...
consisting of Enns, the monitors SMS Leitha, SMS Temes (II) and SMS Szamos, the patrol boat Viza and the armed steamer Balaton destroyed a pontoon bridge near...
of 14/15 May 1917 by the cruisers SMS Novara, Helgoland, and Saida supported by the destroyers SMS Csepel and Balaton and Austro-Hungarian U-boats U-4...
Austrian destroyers running for home, and fired on Balaton. However this attack was unsuccessful and Balaton escaped. On 27 October 1917 Bernoulli sighted...
Navy force consisting of the scout cruiser Helgoland and the destroyers Balaton, Csepel, Lika, Orjen, Tatra, and Triglav left Cattaro on 18 October 1917...
"Gäa", Bittner from "Novara", Janousek from "Helgoland", Vošmik from "Balaton" and Mývalt from "Orjen" as well as Pribyl and Fr. Malý from the flight...
for many years administered the regions of Transdanubia south of Lake Balaton. Koppány proposed to Géza's widow, Sarolt, in accordance with the pagan...
The constituency includes the following municipalities: Abasár Aldebrő Balaton Bátor Bekölce Bélapátfalva Bodony Bükkszék Bükkszenterzsébet Bükkszentmárton...
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