A crippled cruise ship, owned by the same company whose giant liner was wrecked off Italy last month, is being towed by a French tuna boat to the main island in the Seychelles.<br/> <br />An engine room fire on the Costa Allegra knocked out the ship's main power supply in the Indian Ocean on Monday (February 27), leaving it adrift with more than a thousand people on board, in waters vulnerable to pirate attacks.<br/> <br />The ship's Italian owner is Costa Cruises, a unit of U.S. cruise line giant Carnival Corp.<br/> <br />Costa Cruises said a plan to tow it to the nearer island of Desroches had been aborted, because it would have been harder to moor and disembark passengers there.<br/> <br />The Trevignon, a deep sea trawler which sails the oceans for tuna from the Atlantic port of Concarneau, is pulling the Costa Allegra, a vessel many times its size, on a 400-metre cable at a speed of only about six knots.<br/> <br />The cruise ship is due to arrive at the Seychelles capital of Victoria on Thursday morning (March 1).
