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.

这些活动又刺激了船业，稳步扩大了对渔业和各种商船需求， 从而使海港城船工、填缝工、绳索制商和其他工匠忙于工作。