Veeduber wrote:

When I worked along-shore I was surprised to see that ships carrying
cargos from that part of the world used MAHOGANY for dunnage. Indeed,
some years later when stationed at Naval Air Station Alameda I build a
14 foot cat-boat. All of the solid lumber parts were made from
mahogany dunnage I salvaged from piles of the stuff down near the
carrier piers. (The mast was a section of Fir banister-rail; the boom
scarfed from pieces of pine.

-R.S.Hoover

A friend imports a lot of stuff from India and China. He was amazed
that the crates and pallets were often mahogany. He is a woodworker and
salvaged a lot of it for his projects. He said the quality was not
great, but you could get more than enough really nice material to make
smaller projects.

Charles