These were all fabricated by Normand Shipyard, Le Havre in France and shipped dis-assembled to Japan, where they were re-assembled.

All fifteen of these vessels took part in the Battle of Tsushima where they comprised the Ninth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Nineteenth Torpedo Boat Divisions.

March 1904 at the South-end of Tsushima on a mine laying mission after accidentally moving into a previously laid minefield.

The hull was discarded, but parts were recovered and the ship was rebuilt at Kure Naval Arsenal under the resource/budget account 'Repair'.

The Hayabusa-class were only 15 of the 64 torpedo boats the Imperial Japanese Navy possessed in the Russo-Japanese War.