 Prévost turned to his officers and they recommended the plan once again be halted due to the impracticality of the transportation of warships.The lack of material on the Great Lakes made it impossible to provide all the fittings and stores the ships would require and the special requirements that would be needed to transport the frames from Montreal to Kingston would be in danger of American attack.Prévost sent the rejection to London, but it arrived nearly two months after the first components of the warships had landed at Montreal.