Ironclad is a noun or used as an adjective and need not be capitalized. As example, the CSS Virginia was a ship that was an ironclad vessel.
If not a proper noun, then ironclad is not capitalized unless at the beginning of a sentence.
Ironclad rules dictated our every move.
Yes it should be capitalized.
Yes.
Yes Eastern is supposed to be capital.
Yes it is.
No because it is not a proper noun.
The Union Ironclad ship was the Monitor. The Confederate ship was the Virginia.
A ship is by itself never a weapon, and that also goes for an ironclad ship. The ironclad could only be called a weapon carrier.
Virginia
Monitor
The first Ironclad ship ever made was by the northern states during the civil war was named the Monitor.
Earth, as in we live on the planet Earth, is supposed to be capitalized. Earth, as in the dirt we walk on, is not supposed to be capitalized.
a ship heavily armored in iron
it was a ship made of metal
Ironclad
Merrimack
The Merrimack
The Union Ironclad Ship that was built to compete with the Confederate Ironclad was called the U.S.S. Monitor and the Confederate Ironclad was called the Merrimack (more accurately, the CSS Virginia).