Essex skipper darker brown. Elongate chrysalids are yellowish-green, and each has a dark dorsal stripe seen in caterpillars. Essex skipper The Essex skipper ("Thymelicus lineola") is a butterfly in family Hesperiidae. In North America, it is known as the European skipper. With a wingspan of 2.5 to 2.9 cm, it is very similar in appearance to the small skipper "Thymelicus sylvestris". They can be told apart by the undersides of the tips of their antennae: the Essex skipper's antennae are black, whereas those of the small skipper are orange. This butterfly occurs throughout much of the Palaearctic region. Its range is from
SS Lulworth Hill War Medal for Bravery at Sea. In 1985 a radio interview was broadcast in which Cooke described their ordeal and survival. On 23 May 1943 "Leonardo da Vinci" was in the North Atlantic returning from patrol west of Vigo, Spain when the Royal Navy destroyer depth charged and sank her. There were no survivors. James Hull, the prisoner from "Lulworth Hill", had previously been transferred to the Italian submarine "Finzi". In 1947 Dorset Steamships bought the Empire ship SS "Empire Mandarin" and renamed her "Lulworth Hill". In 1949 she was renamed "Castle Hill". In 1950 she was transferred to a