The second ship to be named Sturdy by the Navy, ex-Elda was built in 1930 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, Bronx, New York.

PC-460 was assigned to the Panama Canal Zone for patrol duty at Balboa and arrived there on 13 November 1940.

On 24 January 1942 in the Gulf of Panama about fourteen miles west of San Jose Light, PC-460 accidentally rammed and sank the submarine USS S-26.

Shortly thereafter, PC-460 struck S-26 on the starboard side of the torpedo room and the submarine sank within a few seconds.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.