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Dixmude or Diksmuide, Belgian city.
Dixmude may also refer to:
- French ship Dixmude, three units of the French Navy have been named after the Battle of the Yser
- Dixmude (airship) in French service, previously known as Zeppelin LZ 114
The Dixmude was an airship built for the Imperial German Navy as L 72 (c/n LZ 114) and not completed until after the end of the First World War, when she was given to France as war reparation and recommissioned in French Navy service as Dixmude. She was lost when she exploded in mid-air on 21 December 1923 off the coast of Sicily, killing all 52 (42 crew and ten passengers) on board. This was one of the first of the great airship disasters, preceded by the crash of the British R38 in 1921 (44 dead) and the US airship Roma in 1922 (34 dead), and followed by the destruction of the British R101 in 1930 (48 dead), the USS Akron in 1933 (73 dead) and the German Hindenburg in 1937 (36 dead).