The Jens Albrecht is a bathing ship with her home port Horumersiel , Wangerland . The ship was built as Mürwik (see Mürwik ) at the Husum shipyard ( construction number 1162). The keel was laid on April 20, 1959, launched and completed in April 1960. In the same year the ship was delivered to the Förde Reederei Seetouristik GmbH in Flensburg. It was the shipping company's second new building after the Second World War and a sister ship to the Glücksburg, which was one year older . It was used in the butter journey in the area of the Flensburg Fjord . It was also rebuilt in Kiel in 1974 and got a permanent structure on the upper deck. Before that, however, she was the shipping company's first ship that was used outside the domestic Baltic Sea waters. After it had been determined that butter journeys were also possible on the Ems between Germany and Holland, the Mürwik was relocated to Leer and used on the Leer- Delfzijl - Emden route. These trips lasted three hours by boat and were so successful that the Glücksburg was also relocated to the Ems. For shoppers, for example, the ships were only about two hours' drive from the Ruhr area and its population. In 1975, the Mürwik was replaced by larger company ships and was again used as a butter driver between Langballigau and Søby , Flensburg, Kollund , Glücksburg , Sønderborg and Gråsten (Gravenstein) and, in the meantime, between Havneby on Rømø and List on Sylt . In 1988 she was sold to Karsten Ilse in Horumersiel and renamed Jens Albrecht . It has belonged to the Seetouristik-Wangerland shipping company in Horumersiel since 1998 and is used by them for tours of Horumersiel and Hooksiel on the North Sea.
The Jens Albrecht was initially powered by a MaK engine. Since the machine was exchanged, her main machine has been a four-stroke MAN diesel engine that works on a fixed propeller.
