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The Fire Ship by Peter Tonkin

The Fire Ship: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Fire Ship runs 9.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Dave Courvoisier (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.7listening hrs
Action & Adventure (Fiction)store shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 9.7 hours of listening.

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What our data says

  • At 9.7 hours, it runs longer than 58% of the 6,730 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf

1,184 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Fire Ship is an audiobook by Peter Tonkin: a 9.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Dave Courvoisier, released February 15, 2011, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.7 hrs
Narrated by
Dave Courvoisier
Released
February 15, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Action & Adventure (Fiction)
ISBN
9781605488851

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Fire Ship as an audiobook?

The Fire Ship runs 9.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.

Is The Fire Ship free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Fire Ship?

The Fire Ship is narrated by Dave Courvoisier.