Photos released by the Seychelles on Tuesday showed hundreds of people milling outside on the decks

Conditions on the Costa Allegra are deteriorating. With no electricity, passengers and crew have taken to sleeping on deck.  A woman whose son escaped the Costa Concordia,  and whose daughter is now stuck on the Costa Allegra says all she wants to do is see her daughter. Carl Dinnen Channel Four Europe reports. By msnbc.com news services
Helicopters brought food and flashlights Tuesday to more than 1,000 passengers and crew stuck aboard a crippled cruise ship that was being towed to the Seychelles Islands through waters prowled by pirates.
The Costa Allegra lost power Monday after a fire in its generator room only six weeks after one of its sister ships, the Costa Concordia, hit a reef and capsized off Italy. No one was injured in the fire Monday, but the blaze set the cruise-liner adrift at sea in a region where Somali pirates prey on ships.
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Photos released by the Seychelles on Tuesday showed hundreds of people comfort inn reservations milling outside on the decks of the Costa Allegra. Taken by an Indian navy plane, the photos showed calm seas and an upright ship.
The incident came six weeks after the Costa Concordia capsized, killing 25 people and leaving seven missing comfort inn reservations and presumed dead. Both ships are operated by Costa Crociere SpA, which is owned by the Florida-based Carnival Corp.
The Costa Allegra is adrift "and being pushed by the current. It is stable and upright," Giorgio Moretti, the director of nautical operations for Costa Crociere SpA, told reporters in a conference call late Monday from company headquarters in Genoa, comfort inn reservations Italy.
"It's a big ship and to tow it, to move it across the waters, is a heavy task," said Seychelles presidential spokeswoman Srdjana comfort inn reservations Janosevic. She said that everything is calm on board the cruise ship and that no one is hurt.
Italian comfort inn reservations Coast Guard officials said emergency comfort inn reservations generators were keeping the ship's control comfort inn reservations room illuminated and communications equipment such as radios running. comfort inn reservations Officials said the cruise liner was holding steady, comfort inn reservations despite 5-foot waves in the area and passengers were being kept in the ship's big communal rooms, not in their cabins.
Moretti, a longtime Costa captain, said he expected the 636 passengers aboard would spend the night on outside decks. Among them were 212 Italian, 31 British and eight U.S. passengers, he said. Four of the passengers were children ages 3 or younger.
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The Allegra, whose Italian name means "merry," or "happy," had left northern Madagascar, off Africa's southeast coast, on Saturday and was cruising toward Port Victoria when the fire erupted. Costa said the Allegra had been due in Port Victoria on Tuesday.
The general region where the cruise ship was adrift off the coast of Tanzania has seen a rash of attacks by Somali pirates. In 2009, an Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people aboard fended off a pirate attack in the Indian Ocean far off the coast of Somalia.
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