Called at the Charleston Navy Yard with two men and after some work got the Sj-whale boat into the water. Save a receipt for the boat and fittings of which I have a duplicate copy. Later saw the boat suspended from the clavity of the Hope. Mr. White and I then enjoyed a good and last American dinner for the next three months at the Boston Tavern off Washington street. Spent an hour and a half in the morning with the elder and junior Stickneys. The steamer Hope impressed me very much as a vessel that should stand almost any sort of ice work. She is a whale and cannot of course look a trim as an ocean liner. Undoubted- ly she will roll and pitch greatly when out to sea. Our berths are in the front part of the boat. Thousands of people visited her today and among them I saw Capt Collins.