The Surgeon's Mate: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Aubrey/Maturin series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Surgeon's Mate runs 15.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Patrick Tull (about 10.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 31 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 15.1 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 13,042 Suspense audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Aubrey/Maturin
This is book 7. Books 1 to 6 run 92.4 hours before it; books 1 to 21 run 265.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Master and Commander | 16.8 hrs |
| 2 | Post Captain | 19.5 hrs |
| 3 | H.M.S. Surprise | 15.9 hrs |
| 4 | The Mauritius Command | 14 hrs |
| 5 | Desolation Island | 13.1 hrs |
| 6 | The Fortune of War | 13.2 hrs |
| 7 | The Surgeon's Mate | 15.1 hrs |
| 8 | The Ionian Mission | 15.1 hrs |
| 9 | Treason's Harbour | 12.9 hrs |
| 10 | The Far Side of the World | 14.6 hrs |
| 11 | The Reverse of the Medal | 10.4 hrs |
| 12 | The Letter of Marque | 11.6 hrs |
More narrated by Patrick Tull
Patrick Tull narrates 56 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 622 hours in all.
About as long, on the Suspense shelf
738 Suspense audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Great Alone
- Nine Perfect Strangers
- True Believer
- The Woman in the Window
- The Devil's Hand
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 Surgeon's Mate is book 7 of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series: a 15.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Patrick Tull, released December 19, 2003, on the Suspense and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Patrick Tull
- Released
- December 19, 2003
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Suspense, Fiction
- Series
- Aubrey/Maturin #7
- ISBN
- 9781436100410
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Surgeon's Mate as an audiobook?
The Surgeon's Mate runs 15.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.1 hours.
Is The Surgeon's Mate free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Surgeon's Mate?
The Surgeon's Mate is narrated by Patrick Tull.
Is The Surgeon's Mate worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.1 hours, saving 5 hours.