Lulworth skipper of occurrences exist for Cornwall, but they have not been verified as native colonies. Habitats are primarily on unfertilised calcareous grassland; this includes chalk download, coastal grassland and undercliffs in Britain. In all of these habits Tor-grass ("Illustration 2"), the butterfly's sole food plant and that on which it lays eggs, is widespread. Tall, ungrazed grass is a favoured habitat due to oviposition and larval development; Lulworth skippers have benefited from the move away from tight grazing by sheep in the last century and recently outbreaks of myxomatosis among rabbit populations, which otherwise maintain a lower grass height. However, there
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