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 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