English: Reflecting the side-launching practice dictated by shipbuilding on inland waterways, Richland, her name in white block letters on her bow, enters her element on 5 August 1944, while the christening party watches her progress from the platform at lower right and spectators afloat and ashore look on. (U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-266885, National Archives and Records Administration, Still Pictures Branch, College Park, Md.).