Thomas Welcome Roys: America's Pioneer of Modern Whaling

xiv, 253 pp. Includes several references to Puttneyville, New York's whaling industry. Thomas Welcome Roys (c. 1816 - d. 1877) was an American whaleman. He was significant in the history of whaling in that he discovered the Western Arctic bowhead whale population and developed and patented whaling rockets in order to hunt the faster, more powerful species that had until then eluded European whalers.--Wikipedia