Lulworth skipper Netherlands where it is now extinct. This decline has led to the butterfly's European status of "vulnerable". Isolated populations of the species in Armenia are also threatened, although not yet included in the National Red List. It is also listed as threatened under the United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan. In Great Britain, where the butterfly reaches the northern limit of its range, its distribution is restricted to the southern coastline of the county of Dorset. Here, both the population and range have changed little in recent decades; it is locally abundant, with the majority of colonies found on the coast
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