HMS Vivid was the Royal Navy designation for the barracks at Devonport in England and for other nominal bases in Cornwall, Ireland and Wales.
HMS Vivid was commissioned in 1890, and operated as a training unit until 1914.
[1] Other, nominal bases, were established for personnel on detached duty and attached to HMS Vivid for accounting purposes.
The reason for the ship and the naval establishment having the same name is that prior to 1959, the Naval Discipline Act only applied to Officers and Men of the Royal Navy who were borne or listed in the muster books of one of HM ships of War.
Thus all personnel were allocated to a nominal depot ship, even when not actually serving on a proper seagoing warship.