Cinquefoil skipper of the forewing and the usually deeper red-brown underwings. The cinquefoil skipper flies in July and August. The larval food plant is spring cinquefoil ("Potentilla neumanniana"). Cinquefoil skipper The cinquefoil skipper ("Pyrgus cirsii") is a species of skipper butterfly (family Hesperiidae). It has a scattered distribution in central and southern Europe, and several isolated populations in north-eastern Turkey and in Armenia. This species has a wingspan of 26–28 mm and, typically of its genus, can be very difficult to identify in the field. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the carline skipper ("P. carlinae") as the two are known
SS Lulworth Hill "Leonardo da Vinci" captured and took on board one survivor of the sinking, James Leslie Hull. After 29 days the UK authorities assumed that the "Lulworth Hill" had been lost with all hands and duly informed their families. On 7 May the Royal Navy R-class destroyer picked up one of the "Lulworth Hill"'s liferafts. Of the 14 men that had survived the sinking, after 50 days adrift only two, Seaman Shipwright ("i.e." carpenter) Kenneth Cooke and Able Seaman Colin Armitage, remained alive. On 7 December 1943 both men were awarded the George Medal and on 7 November 1944 the Lloyd's