The colour was presented to the former Karlskrona Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA 2) at Stockholm Palace by His Majesty the King Gustaf V on 1 June 1945.

[4] The colour is drawn by Brita Grep and embroidered by hand in insertion technique by the company Libraria.

Blazon: "On red cloth in the centre the badge of the former Coastal Artillery; two gunbarrels of older pattern in saltire between a royal crown proper and a blazing grenade and waves, all in yellow.

In the first corner the monogram of His Majesty the King Charles XI surmounting an erect anchor under a royal crown proper, all in yellow".

Before 2001, it was called Sydkustens marinkommandos förtjänstmedalj (MKSGM/SM) ("South Coast Naval Command Medal of Merit").