Ship that caused deadly Baltimore bridge collapse to be refloated and moved NBC Boston [Video]

The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was refloated at high tide Monday and began slowly moving back to port, guided by several tugboats.

The ship appeared to start moving shortly after 6 a.m. as crews began maneuvering it out of the wreckage. It started and stopped a few times before slowly backing away from the collapse site.

With the hulking cargo ship removed from the mouth of Baltimore’s harbor, a newly opened void appeared in the city’s skyline. The altered waterscape also highlighted the progress made on the cleanup effort as crews have already removed hundreds of tons of mangled steel from the collapse site.

Officials said the Dali would move at about 1 mph on the roughly 2.5-mile (4-kilometer) trip back to port, a fraction of the speed it was traveling when it lost power and brought down the bridge. Pieces of the bridge’s steel trusses protruded from the ship’s bow, which remained covered in mangled concrete …