Pipe Organ
A Welte Philharmonic Organ was originally planned to be installed on board the Britannic. Because of the outbreak of the First World War, the instrument never made its way over to Belfast.
During the restoration of the Welte-Organ, now in the Swiss National Museum in Seewen, the restorers detected in April 2007 that the main parts of the instrument were signed by the German organ builders with "Britanik". A photo of a drawing in a company prospectus, found in the Welte-legacy in the Augustiner Museum in Freiburg, proved that this was indeed the organ intended for the Britannic.
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