Lulworth skipper S. A. von Rottemburg in 1775. The butterfly was first discovered in Britain on 15 August 1832, when specimens were taken from Lulworth Cove in Dorset by English naturalist James Charles Dale It was introduced the following year as the Lulworth skipper ("Thymelicus acteon"), a name that has remained unchanged; it is the only one of Britain's vernacular butterfly names for which there has never been a proposed substitute. The male Lulworth skipper has a wingspan of , and the female 25 to 28 mm. This makes it one of Britain's smallest butterflies and, in Europe, the smallest member of
SS Lulworth Hill new Rethymnis & Kulukundis company, London & Overseas Freighters Ltd, who renamed her "London Builder". LOF sold her in 1951 to new owners who registered her under the Panamanian flag of convenience as "Silver Wake". She changed owners and names several more times, becoming "Navarino" in 1954, "Stanhope" in 1955 and "Ardbrae" in 1961. She was scrapped at Onomichi, Japan in 1966. SS Lulworth Hill SS "Lulworth Hill" was a British cargo ship completed by William Hamilton & Co in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in 1940. "Lulworth Hill" had a single 520 NHP triple-expansion steam engine driving