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业，稳步扩大对渔业和各种商的需求， 海港城镇的工、填缝工、绳索制商和其他工匠忙于工作。