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Costa Allegra, built in 1992 by Mariotti shipyards in Genoa, is 28, 597 tons, and 188 meters long.
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That was followed less than two months later by an engine-room fire aboard the Costa Allegra, another Costa Crociere ship, which left it adrift and without power in the Indian Ocean.
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The fire aboard the Costa Allegra comes only six weeks after one of its sister ships, the Costa Concordia, hit a reef and shipwrecked off Italy, killing 25 people and leaving seven missing and presumed dead.
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Just 6 weeks after the Costa Concordia ran aground off Italy, another one of their cruise ships, the Costa Allegra has caught fire and is now adrift two hundred miles southwest of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
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More than 1, 000 passengers and crew on the Costa Allegra a sister ship of the Costa Concordia, which capsized last month suffered through three days of being stranded after a fire in the generator room caused the cruise ship to lose power.
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Costa Cruises has been informed that today at 10:39, Italian time, a fire developed on board Costa Allegra in the engine room, the local electric generators located at the stern. procedures and the system of fire board were promptly activated and the special brigades of the board have occurred, the fire was extinguished and did not extend to any other area of the ship.
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Costa said the Allegra had been due in Port Victoria on Tuesday.
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Mr. Moretti said 15 Costa engineers, technicians and other officials were flying to Mahe in hope of reaching the Allegra by air to repair its generators.
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