Here’s an interesting article, which originally appeared in Stamp Collecting (UK), May 22nd 1964, concerning S.S. The City of Berlin on the 2d. Postal Centenary issue of Jamaica (1960).

It reads as follows:

In January 1960, Jamaica commemorated the centenary of its first issue of postage stamps. One would have thought that if a packet-boat design were contemplated, then the most appropriate subject would have been one of the Royal Mail Line West Indian steamers.

Instead, the accepted design depicted The City of Berlin, a contract mail-packet steamer famous for its North Atlantic services between Liverpool and New York. Built for the Inman Steamship Company (British) in 1875, she was of 5,491 gross tonnage, and until 1881 was the largest steamship on the Atlantic. For 18 years The City of Berlin sailed regularly between Liverpool and New York, and the British Post Office subsidised the carriage of her contract packet-mails. For a few months she held the Atlantic Blue Riband until losing it to the White Star’s Germanic. In 1893 she was transferred to the America Line of steamships and named simply Berlin.

Her English terminal point was changed from Liverpool to Southampton, and for the next five years she operated on the New York-Southampton run, apart from a short period of service between New York and Antwerp. In 1898 she was bought by the U.S. Government for transport duties and renamed Meade, and was finally scrapped in 1921. At no time was this ship ever connected with mail services to Jamaica or the West Indies.