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，稳步扩大了业种商船的需求， 从而使海港城镇的造船工、填缝工、绳索制造商其他工匠忙于工作。