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业，大了对渔业和各种商求， 从而使海港城镇造工、填缝工、绳索制造商和其他工匠忙于工作。