Interesting, Dundee was the big Scottish East Coast whaling port.
Hence why Dundee built ships were the preferred transport for the antarctic expeditions (Discovery and Terra Nova)
https://lenathehyena.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/scotlands-first-oil-boom-the-greenland-whale/Unfortunately some poor whale once thought it would be a good idea to have a sniff up the Tay and was promptly followed by pretty much every boat that was home.
It's skeleton used to hang rather impressively over the stairwell of the Barrack street Museum but is now less impressively (IMHO) on display in the McManus Galleries in the Albert Institute.
One of my relatives apparently went whaling, whether or not he returned I don't know, but for most men in Dundee the alternative to Whaling was Kettle Biling.
Another relative failed in a venture to take a ship load of Merino Sheep from Australia to New Zealand; or more accurately lost interest when it turned out to be a slow burner for money and went to the USA to chase gold.
