  Non-BPS non-Abelian vortices with CP^1 internal moduli space are studied in
an N=2 supersymmetric U(1) x SU(2) gauge theory with softly breaking adjoint
mass terms. For generic internal orientations the classical force between two
vortices can be attractive or repulsive. On the other hand, the mass of the
scalars in the theory is always less than that of the vector bosons; also, the
force between two vortices with the same CP^1 orientation is always attractive:
for these reasons we interpret our model as a non-Abelian generalization of
type I superconductors. We compute the effective potential in the limit of two
well separated vortices. It is a function of the distance and of the relative
colour-flavour orientation of the two vortices; in this limit we find an
effective description in terms of two interacting CP^1 sigma models. In the
limit of two coincident vortices we find two different solutions with the same
topological winding and, for generic values of the parameters, different
tensions. One of the two solutions is described by a CP^1 effective sigma
model, while the other is just an Abelian vortex without internal degrees of
freedom. For generic values of the parameters, one of the two solutions is
metastable, while there are evidences that the other one is truly stable.
