A port side view aft of the broadside, of the wooden two-masted schooner E.R.I. [E.R.J.] (1868) aground on the beach at Stony Par (Stony Porth), Saint Martin's, Isles of Scilly. The ship is completely ashore, as the tide is out. Much of the rigging has been removed or lost, including the jib-boom on bowsprit and the top masts and yards. A man is standing on the end of the bowsprit looking towards another who is standing on the port bulwark next to the cathead. The foremast has had the standing rigging removed. One man is sitting on the mast cap of the main mast while a second is standing on the port cross-tree. A third is standing in the rigging looking towards the camera with his arms outstretched. Block and tackle have been set up between the bowsprit and main mast to hoist cargo out of the hold. An other block and tackle goes from the lower section of the main mast to the shore. Two men stand by the port anchor chain and another man off the port broadside.

This is a copy negative of an original print. Masking fluid has been used to accentuate the clouds. The original negative looks to have been touched up around the area of the men on the mast.

E. R. I [E. R. J.] (1868) was wrecked on passage from Montevideo to Falmouth with a mixed cargo of ashes, hide and other unspecified goods. On 30 January 1871 she struck the Wethen/Wethin Rock off the east side of White Island, northeast of Saint Martin's, before drifting away and grounding at the beach of Stony Par in the island. The cargo was salvaged and the hull sold for £30.

Note that the spelling of the ship is in question. Mercantile Navy List (1871 edn) states it is E. R. I. while Lloyd's Register of Shipping records it as E. R. J. Both have the same owner and build date detail.