HMS Prize
| Name | HMS Prize |
| Type | Q-ship
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| GRT | 199 tons |
| Country |  British |
| Built | 1901
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| Builder | E. J. Smit & Zoon, Westerbroek
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| Operator | Royal Navy
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| History | A steel-hulled three masted schooner named Else that was taken as a prize when the war began. Renamed First Prize for the Marine Navigation Co. of Canada Ltd., Montreal, before the Royal Navy put her to use as a Q-ship.
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U-boat attacks on Q-ship Prize
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
| 1 | 30 Apr 1917 | U 93 (Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim) | Damaged | Damaged by gunfire 120 miles SW of the south point of Ireland
| 49° 51'N, 11° 53'W
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| 0
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| U 93 also damaged with one crew member killed and her commander and two other crew members captured after being blown overboard by a shell hit.
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| 2 | 12 Jun 1917 | UC 75 (Johannes Lohs) | Damaged | Took a shell hit in a Q-ship action; Prize’s commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. William Sanders, V.C., being wounded.
| 51° 03'N, 9° 11'W
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| 0
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| 3 | 14 Aug 1917 | UB 48 (Wolfgang Steinbauer) | Sunk | Torpedoed off the NW coast of Ireland
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| 27
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| Sunk with all hands.
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Position of attacks on Prize
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