These activities, in turn, stimulated shipbuilding, steadily enlarging the demand for fishing and merchant craft of every kind and thus keeping the shipwrights, caulkers, rope makers, and other artisans of the seaport towns rushed with work.

这些活动反过来又刺激了造船业，稳步扩大了对渔业和各种商船的需求， 从而使海港城镇的造船、填缝、制造商和其他匠忙于作。