Gavin Menzies and the Mahogany Ship

Gavin Menzies, author of the controversial 1421 - The Year China Discovered The World, thinks that the legendary Mahogany Ship of Australia might have been Chinese instead of Portuguese.

I had never heard of the Mahogany Ship before, but the story reminds me a little of the Lost Ships of the Mojave, Spanish galleons trapped in the desert by the retreating Sea of Cortez/Gulf of California.