Name: Dixmude
Builder: Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire
Commissioned: December 2011
Homeport: Toulon
Class & type: Mistral-class amphibious assault ship
Displacement: 16,500 t (empty)
21,300 t (full load)
32,300 t (with ballast)
Length: 199 m (653 ft)
Beam: 32 m (105 ft)
Draught: 6.3 m (21 ft)
Installed power: 4 × Wärtsilä 16V32 (4 × 6,2 MW)
Propulsion: Diesel-electric; two Rolls-Royce Mermaid azimuth thrusters (2 × 7 MW) with 5-bladed fixed pitch propellers
Speed: 18.8 knots (34.8 km/h; 21.6 mph)
Capacity: 2 barges, one Leclerc battalion, 70 vehicles
Armament: 2 × Simbad surface-to-air missile systems
2 × 30 mm Breda-Mauser autocannons
4 × 12.7 mm M2-HB Browning machine guns
Aircraft carried: 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters