The ship was built and equipped by a consortium in which Abeking & Rasmussen, Lürssen Werft , Atlas Elektronik and EADS were involved. The SWATH technology, which had already been used for the construction of pilot station and transfer boats, was used in the construction. Modifications were u. a. required for recording the sonar and installing the marine equipment.
The Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement used the ship in the North and Baltic Seas for testing remote-controlled mine-hunting equipment. The ship served here within the project "Mine Hunting 2000" as a test vehicle for a called "Seahorse" unmanned mine hunting drone of which, according to project planning later two units of the guide base class 334 retrofitted minehunters of Kulmbach class (Class 333) should be controlled . The “sea horse” drones, in turn, were to be equipped with small underwater drones, “sea wolf” and “sea fox”, to fight mines.
After the project was abandoned in autumn 2005, the ship went to the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, which had it converted into a pilot transfer boat in 2006 and renamed it Borkum . The ship is from the Lotsenbrüderschaft Emden in the Ems used muzzle after it initially primarily as Versetzboot the pilot station ship Weser in the Weser estuary was used.
