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Thomas Welcome Roys -LRB- c. 1816 - d. 1877 -RRB- was an American whaleman .. American. United States. whaleman. whaling. He discovered the Western Arctic bowhead whale population and patented and developed whaling rockets in order to hunt the faster , more powerful species of whale that had until then eluded European whalers .. bowhead whale. bowhead whale