At 02.54 hours on 21 Feb 1940 the neutral Tara (Master M. Breedijk) was hit by one torpedo from U-50 west of Cape Finisterre and sank 20 minutes after being hit by a coup de grâce at 03.12 hours. The U-boat had spotted the steamer at midnight, which was according to Bauer en route without visible neutrality markings and missed her with a first torpedo at 01.38 hours. All hands abandoned ship in two lifeboats of which one made landfall at the Spanish coast, while the survivors in the other boat were picked up by the Spanish fishing trawler Milin and landed at La Coruna, Spain.