The Hauke Haien is a passenger motor ship of the Halligreederei MS "Hauke Haien", Captain Bernd Diedrichsen. It is named after the main character from Theodor Storm's novella The Schimmelreiter - the dikgrave Hauke Haien.
The Hauke Haien was built in 1960 under the construction number 203 as Amrum at the Büsum shipyard W. & E. Sielaff . The keel was laid on June 15, the launch on September 28, 1960. Completion took place in October of that year. The ship was then delivered to Amrumer Schiffahrts-AG (ASAG). It mostly ran between Amrum, the Halligen and Schlüttsiel .
In 1968 the ship was with the commissioning of the car ferry Amrum in Husum renamed. In the course of the takeover by Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei Föhr-Amrum GmbH , it passed into their ownership on February 1, 1971. In 1983 she was sold and in 1988 she was acquired by her current owner, the Hallig shipping company MS "Hauke Haien". The ship is used from Schlüttsiel or Wyk auf Föhr for excursions in the North Frisian Wadden Sea. It can also be booked for charter trips.
