Horve decided to take the enemy ship as a prize and bring it to a British port. Since "Draug" had almost no anti-aircraft weapons to speak of, and the skies were full of enemy aircraft, the destroyer could do little good by remaining where she was. He ignored an order from Naval Command to go to the Hardangerfjord and block German naval forces from gaining access to that fjord. As Horve knew that the Naval Command headquarters in Bergen had been captured by the German invaders, he assumed that the order was false, although it later turned out it was not. When ordered to steer his ship towards Britain, the captain of "Main" refused, only yielding after the Norwegian warship fired several warning shots and threatened to torpedo him.