PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - The cargo ship that struck a Kentucky Lake bridge, bringing part of it down, has resumed its voyage to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
A spokeswoman for the ship's owner, Foss Maritime, told The Paducah Sun that the Delta Mariner left the shipyard in Paducah, Kentucky on Friday evening. The ship had arrived on February 15 for repairs.
The ship struck the Eggner Ferry Bridge on January 26, collapsing a 322-foot section of it onto the vessel's deck and into the lake. The missing span halted traffic on U.S. 68 between the western shore of the lake and the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area.
Most of the visible damage to the ship, which was carrying rocket parts for NASA and the U.S. Air Force, was to handrails and deck machinery.
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