 Badly damaged, the Prize had to spend several weeks being repaired. During this time the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John Jellicoe offered Sanders command of a destroyer of his choosing, which he declined. He returned to sea in May with the Prize conducting a second patrol for three weeks. Sanders was wounded slightly in an action on 12 June, in which the Prize was fired at 30 times by the U-boat being attacked. His award of the Victoria Cross (VC) for his actions on 30 April was gazetted in June, while he was at sea on a third patrol. Because the use of Q-ships such as the Prize were still secret, the published details of his award when it was gazetted simply read
