 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 
