SMS Sebenico was a torpedo cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, the third member of the Zara class, though built to a slightly different design to her two half-sister ships in an unsuccessful attempt to improve her speed.

She took part in an international naval demonstration off Crete in 1897, where she sank a Greek ship trying to break the blockade.

Chief Engineer Josef von Romako, the designer of the ships, decided to slightly lengthen Sebenico in an attempt to improve her speed over her sister ships Zara and Spalato, which had failed to reach their design speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).

From 26 September, she returned to engine-room training, though this was interrupted in November with an assignment to serve as the station ship in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

She arrived as part of an Austro-Hungarian contingent that also included the ironclad Kronprinzessin Erzherzogin Stephanie, the armored cruiser Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia, the torpedo cruisers Tiger and Leopard, three destroyers, and eight torpedo boats, the third-largest contingent in the International Squadron after those of the United Kingdom and Italy.

On 17 March 1898, Sebenico intercepted and sank a Greek schooner trying to run the International Squadron's blockade of Crete off the island of Dia.

[4] The International Squadron operated off Crete until December 1898, but Austria-Hungary, displeased with the decision to create an autonomous Cretan State under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, withdrew its ships in March 1898.

[6] On 13 January 1904, she assisted the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship SS Calipso that had run aground off Medolino.

During this period, after World War I broke out in July 1914, Sebenico was stationed as a guard ship in her namesake city.

With Austria-Hungary's defeat, the Allies seized most of the Austro-Hungarian fleet as war prizes, and Sebenico was allocated to Italy in 1920, which scrapped her that year.