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...

notable user of these early explosive harpoons was the American Thomas Welcome Roys in 1865, who set up a shore station in Seydisfjördur, Iceland. A...

Bowhead whale population in the Artic was discovered by Captain Thomas Welcome Roys, who sailed the New Beford Whaleship Superior past the Bearing Straight...

rorquals such as the blue whale and fin whale. In the 1860s Captain Thomas Welcome Roys invented a rocket harpoon, making a significant contribution to the...

Captain Thomas Sodring, in 1845. In 1847, the first bowheads were caught in the Sea of Okhotsk, and the following year, Captain Thomas Welcome Roys, in the...

industrialized whaling station. It was established in 1864 by American whaler Thomas Welcome Roys and run by him and his workforce until 1866. Both settlements served...

Roy William Thomas Jr. (born November 22, 1940) is an American comic book writer and editor. He was Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel...

to get over the sandbar that formed at the mouth of the harbor. Thomas Welcome Roys, in the Sag Harbor bark Superior, sailed through the Bering Strait...

whaling industry and Norway's prominence as a whaling nation. In 1865, Thomas Welcome Roys and C. A. Lilliendahl, tested their experimental rocket harpoon design...

techniques and technology in the late 19th century. In 1865, Americans Thomas Welcome Roys and C. A. Lilliendahl tested their experimental rocket harpoon design...